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> [Great poetry must be admired, because it is great and because it is poetry, and so we admire it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/witold-gombrowicz/great-poetry-must-be-admired-because-it-is-great-and-because-it-is/)

[Witold Gombrowicz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/witold-gombrowicz/)

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## More by Witold Gombrowicz

> [“If you were to stare at this box of matches, you could extract entire worlds out of it. If you search for tastes in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/witold-gombrowicz/if-you-were-to-stare-at-this-box-of-matches-you-could-extract-entire/)

[Witold Gombrowicz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/witold-gombrowicz/)

> [“My literature must remain that which it is. Especially that something which does not fit into politics and does not want to serve it.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/witold-gombrowicz/my-literature-must-remain-that-which-it-is-especially-that-something/)

[Witold Gombrowicz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/witold-gombrowicz/)

> [“Joey, it's high time, dear child. What will people say? If you don't want to be a doctor, at least be a womanizer, or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/witold-gombrowicz/joey-it-s-high-time-dear-child-what-will-people-say-if-you-don-t-want/)

[Witold Gombrowicz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/witold-gombrowicz/)

> [“Why, my man is created from the outside, that is, he is inauthentic in essence- he is always not-himself, because he is determined by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/witold-gombrowicz/why-my-man-is-created-from-the-outside-that-is-he-is-inauthentic-in/)

[Witold Gombrowicz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/witold-gombrowicz/)

> [You, oh mature ones, keep company solely with other mature ones, and your maturity is so mature that it can only chum up with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/witold-gombrowicz/you-oh-mature-ones-keep-company-solely-with-other-mature-ones-and/)

[Witold Gombrowicz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/witold-gombrowicz/)

> [“Average intelligence loves blinders, which facilitate an even trot; but a brisker and livelier intelligence desires uncertainty, risk, a play of more deceptive and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/witold-gombrowicz/average-intelligence-loves-blinders-which-facilitate-an-even-trot-but/)

[Witold Gombrowicz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/witold-gombrowicz/)

> [The difference between western and eastern intellectuals is that the former have not been kicked in the ass enough.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/witold-gombrowicz/the-difference-between-western-and-eastern-intellectuals-is-that-the/)

[Witold Gombrowicz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/witold-gombrowicz/)

> [“Many a beauty in her own room behaves repulsively till one splits one's sides.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/witold-gombrowicz/many-a-beauty-in-her-own-room-behaves-repulsively-till-one-splits-one/)

[Witold Gombrowicz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/witold-gombrowicz/)

> [Wherever I see some mystique, be it virtue or family, faith or fatherland, there I must commit some indecent act.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/witold-gombrowicz/wherever-i-see-some-mystique-be-it-virtue-or-family-faith-or/)

[Witold Gombrowicz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/witold-gombrowicz/)

> [“Cóż wy wiecie o triumfie, który pozwala rozkoszować się własną niedojrzałością i jest jednocześnie jej wyswobodzeniem i przezwyciężeniem?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/witold-gombrowicz/c-wy-wiecie-o-triumfie-kt-ry-pozwala-rozkoszowa-si-w-asn-niedojrza-o/)

[Witold Gombrowicz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/witold-gombrowicz/)

> [“(…) jest naiwnością mniemanie, jakoby zachwyt nasz wobec dzieła sztuki z nas samych pochodził: że zachwyt ten w sporej mierze nie rodzi się z…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/witold-gombrowicz/jest-naiwno-ci-mniemanie-jakoby-zachwyt-nasz-wobec-dzie-a-sztuki-z/)

[Witold Gombrowicz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/witold-gombrowicz/)

> [“Wielka Poezja będąc wielką i będąc poezją nie może nie zachwycać nas, a więc zachwyca!”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/witold-gombrowicz/wielka-poezja-b-d-c-wielk-i-b-d-c-poezj-nie-mo-e-nie-zachwyca-nas-a/)

[Witold Gombrowicz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/witold-gombrowicz/)

> [Don't be fooled by your own wisdom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/witold-gombrowicz/don-t-be-fooled-by-your-own-wisdom/)

[Witold Gombrowicz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/witold-gombrowicz/)

> [I am reading Sienkiewicz. What tormenting reading. What a powerful genius! And there never was such a first-rate writer of the second-rate class.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/witold-gombrowicz/i-am-reading-sienkiewicz-what-tormenting-reading-what-a-powerful/)

[Witold Gombrowicz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/witold-gombrowicz/)

> [“Wednesday Wind and spindles of clouds crowding the peaks from the south. A lone chicken pecks away on the lawn… To be a concrete…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/witold-gombrowicz/wednesday-wind-and-spindles-of-clouds-crowding-the-peaks-from-the/)

[Witold Gombrowicz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/witold-gombrowicz/)

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