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 SzymborskaI cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.
Wislawa SzymborskaGenerally speaking, life is so rich and full of variety; you have to remember all the time that there is a comical side to everything.
Wislawa SzymborskaI have sympathy for young people, for their growing pains, but I balk when these growing pains are pushed into the foreground, when you make these young people the only vehicles of lifes wisdom.
Wislawa Szymborska