People on a Bridge

Name: People on a Bridge
Author: Wisława Szymborska

by Wisława Szymborska

Philosophical lyric depicting strangers observing the city from a bridge

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Wisława Szymborska

Polish poet who won the Nobel Prize in 1996. Her witty, philosophically probing poems ask unexpected questions about the ordinary and the cosmic with deceptive lightness.

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