Wislawa Szymborska Quotes about Inspiration

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Inspiration is not the exclusive privilege of poets or artists. There is, there has been, there will always be a certain group of people whom inspiration visits. It's made up of all those who've consciously chosen their

Inspiration is not the exclusive privilege of poets or artists. There is, there has been, there will always be a certain group of people whom inspiration visits. It's made up of all those who've consciously chosen their calling and do their job with love and imagination. Difficulties and setbacks never quell their curiosity. A swarm of new questions emerges from every problem that they solve. Whatever inspiration is, it's born from a continuous 'I don't know.'

Wislawa Szymborska

Jobs, Inspiration, Artist

"The Poet and the World". Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 07, 1996.

Whatever inspiration is, it's born from a continuous "I don't know.

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Inspiration, Writing, Born

Wislawa Szymborska, Stanisław Barańczak, Clare Cavanagh (2000). “Poems, New and Collected, 1957-1997”, p.15, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune's darlings.

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Inspiration, Ethos, Groups

Wislawa Szymborska (2015). “Poems New and Collected”, p.16, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Everyone needs solitude, especially a person who is used to thinking about what she experiences. Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation.

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Inspiration, Writing, Thinking

"Alone with the Greta Garbo of verse". Interview with James Hopkin, www.theguardian.com. July 15, 2000.