Well, one is inspired by the whole of life, one's own and somebody else's. You know how sometimes you hear great music, and music is completely untranslatable into words, into any words. A certain tension that is born when one listens to music could aid you in expressing something absolutely different.
Wislawa SzymborskaGod was finally going to believe in a man both good and strong, but good and strong are still two different men.
Wislawa SzymborskaPoets yearn, of course, to be published, read, and understood, but they do little, if anything, to set themselves above the common herd and the daily grind.
Wislawa SzymborskaWhen it comes, youโll be dreaming that you donโt need to breathe; that breathless silence is the music of the dark and itโs part of the rhythm to vanish like a spark.
Wislawa SzymborskaWhen I pronounce the word Future, the first syllable already belongs to the past. When I pronounce the word Silence, I destroy it.
Wislawa Szymborska