It is a grave error for historians of literature to interpret the national spirit of the age in an oversimplified manner, ignoring the complexity of various cultural and life processes. Instead of using their imagination, they try to read the… — Mieczyslaw Jastrun Copy Share Image
The spirit of the age is not synonymous with what the public likes. — Mieczyslaw Jastrun Copy Share Image
Environment grinds us, forces us to adjust, and--consciously or not--kills our most precious possession: that something which enables us to speak with ourselves and… — Mieczyslaw Jastrun Copy Share Image
The history of the creative progress of individual artists shows that, along with their spiritual growth and the increasing complexity of their inner life,… — Mieczyslaw Jastrun Copy Share Image
Poetry, in the entire course of its development, has always been trying to capture meanings and problems which are still obscure and dormant. Poetry… — Mieczyslaw Jastrun Copy Share Image
Talent--that is to say, the ability to see the world in a unique way--matures and grows in isolation. — Mieczyslaw Jastrun Copy Share Image
The solitude of the poet is the uniqueness of his experience, and the particulaity of his sensitivity and imagination. — Mieczyslaw Jastrun Copy Share Image
In the end, time is the best ally of poets. It clarifies their works and makes them accessible to an ever widening circle of… — Mieczyslaw Jastrun Copy Share Image
It is a grave error for historians of literature to interpret the national spirit of the age in an oversimplified manner, ignoring the complexity… — Mieczyslaw Jastrun Copy Share Image
From laboratories employing complex apparatus, poetry often emerges into the outside world after a long lapse of time, just as some scientific discoveries become… — Mieczyslaw Jastrun Copy Share Image
The demand that poetry be immediately understandable to everyone is truly absurd. — Mieczyslaw Jastrun Copy Share Image
