Wisława Szymborska puffs out a cloud of cigarette smoke, sitting among other, unidentified, guests at the Nobel banquet at the Town Hall of Stockholm, Sweden, Tuesday December 10, 1996. Earlier that day Wislawa Szymborska received the Nobel Prize in literature for her “beautiful, deep and subtle poetry”.
yeah it’s all by choice and not because i have issues with intimacy and vulnerability and abandonment and relationships and my body and my parents and my childhood and how much i value myself and how im perceived and
