Voice of the Day: Wislawa Szymborska | Sojourners

Voice of the Day: Wislawa Szymborska

Inspiration is not the exclusive privilege of poets or artists generally. There is, has been, and 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. It may include doctors, teachers, gardeners -- and I could list a hundred more professions ... A swarm of new questions emerges from every problem they solve. Whatever inspiration is, it's born from a continuous "I don't know."

- Wislawa Szymborska
from her lecture upon winning the Nobel Prize for literature in 1996

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