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 SzymborskaIt's a well-known fact: in order to follow doctor's orders, you have to be healthy as a horse.
Wislawa SzymborskaNo one feels good at four in the morning. If ants feel good at four in the morning โthree cheers for the ants.
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 SzymborskaPoets, if they're genuine, must keep repeating "I don't know." Each poem marks an effort to answer this statement, but as soon as the final period hits the page, the poet begins to hesitate, starts to realize that this particular answer was pure makeshift that's absolutely inadequate to boot. So the poets keep on trying, and sooner or later the consecutive results of their self-dissatisfaction are clipped together with a giant paperclip by literary historians and called their oeuvre.
Wislawa Szymborska