Inspiration Quote by Wisława Szymborska

Inspiration is not the exclusive privilege of poets or artists. There is, there has been, there will always be a certain group of people…

— Anonymous

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

— Wislawa Szymborska

... the poem reminds us of what we ourselves know, but did not know we knew; reminds us, above all, of what we are.

— Kathleen Raine

Sometimes, you don't know where your inspiration's going to come from.

— Lee Ranaldo

“A writer discovers what he knows as he knows it, i.e., as he makes it. No artist writes in order to objectify an “idea”…

— Gilbert Sorrentino

“Inspiration is found in the unknown, what you discover there is up to you.”

— Isa Millot

“I suggest we embrace the phrase, "I don't know." It seems to get a bad rap, but "I don't know" is a respectable answer…

— Guy P. Harrison

“To my way of thinking the function of the poet is to make us aware of what we know and don't know we know.”

— William S. Burroughs

“You may be a poet and not even know it.”

— M.L. Shanahan

Poets, 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…

— Wislawa Szymborska

Inspiration pushes me out of my tight intellectual comfort zone and into humility, the wonderous state of not knowing. From this place of zero,…

— Sharon Gannon

“I'm not a poet and I know it.”

— Steph