"Confess publicly is like losing your own soul. You have to save something for one. You can not squandered everything. "Wislawa Szymborska A never liked to talk about herself, considering that all he had to say about her was in his poems. This biography is a compendium of biographical details that the authors extracted following a thorough search of the poetic texts and literary columns that the poet wrote throughout his life, the stories of their friends and acquaintances and conversations that Szymborska, finally and very reluctantly agreed to keep them, "it's a terrible feeling to read about the same: but since you have worked so hard, okay," us specify "." Discreet, timid, quite reluctant to the uproars, cheerful and with a wonderful sense of humor, Wislawa was an outstanding poet and a better person and realize these pages that rebuild his life from his early childhood in Kórnik until his last days in Krakow , where he died at the age of eighty-eight years leaving "luckily for us, quite enough to read and to think."