Poetic talent doesn't operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
Poetry helps me understand who I am. It helps me understand the world around me. But above all, what poetry has taught me is the fact that I need to embrace mystery in order to be completely human.
I define poetry as celebration and confrontation. When we witness something, are we responsible for what we witness? That's an on-going existential question. Perhaps we are and perhaps there's a kind of daring, a kind of necessary energetic questioni...
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.
Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place.
For poetry there exists neither large countries nor small. Its domain is in the heart of all men.
There are men who can write poetry, and there are men who can read balance sheets. The men who can read balance sheets cannot write.
If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
