I slide my arm from under the sleeper’s head and it is numb, full of swarming pins, on the tip of each, waiting to be counted, the fallen angels sit.
Memory at last has what I sought.
Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
Poetic talent doesn’t operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
When it comes, you’ll be dreaming that you don’t need to breathe; that breathless silence is the music of the dark and it’s part of the rhythm to vanish like a spark.
Generally speaking, life is so rich and full of variety; you have to remember all the time that there is a comical side to everything.
Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.
Poorly prepared for the dignity of life, I barely keep up with the pace of the action imposed. Reality demands.
Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
Nothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave without the chance to practice.
I’m one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
Loveless work, boring work, work valued only because others haven’t got even that much, however loveless and boring – this is one of the harshest human miseries.
Sometimes I write quickly, sometimes I spend several weeks on a single poem. I would really love for readers not to be able to guess which of the poems took so much work!
Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
But they know about us, they know, the four corners, and the chairs nearby us. Discerning shadows also know, and even the table keeps quiet.
Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune’s darlings.
Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
I 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.
After every war someone has to tidy up.