Mieczyslaw Jastrun

Environment grinds us, forces us to adjust, and--consciously or not--kills our most precious possession: that something which enables us to speak with…

— Mieczyslaw Jastrun

The history of the creative progress of individual artists shows that, along with their spiritual growth and the increasing complexity of their…

— Mieczyslaw Jastrun

Tradition remains alive only when we struggle with it.

— Mieczyslaw Jastrun

Poetry, in the entire course of its development, has always been trying to capture meanings and problems which are still obscure and…

— Mieczyslaw Jastrun

Talent--that is to say, the ability to see the world in a unique way--matures and grows in isolation.

— Mieczyslaw Jastrun

The solitude of the poet is the uniqueness of his experience, and the particulaity of his sensitivity and imagination.

— Mieczyslaw Jastrun

In the end, time is the best ally of poets. It clarifies their works and makes them accessible to an ever widening…

— Mieczyslaw Jastrun

Solitude is an essential element of poetry.

— Mieczyslaw Jastrun

The age of sages is past; the age of specialists has come.

— Mieczyslaw Jastrun

It is a grave error for historians of literature to interpret the national spirit of the age in an oversimplified manner, ignoring…

— Mieczyslaw Jastrun

From laboratories employing complex apparatus, poetry often emerges into the outside world after a long lapse of time, just as some scientific…

— Mieczyslaw Jastrun

The demand that poetry be immediately understandable to everyone is truly absurd.

— Mieczyslaw Jastrun

The public, regardless of its social origin, likes, above all, that which is easily accessible.

— Mieczyslaw Jastrun

The spirit of the age is not synonymous with what the public likes.

— Mieczyslaw Jastrun

Art cannot progress by sticking to what is already familiar.

— Mieczyslaw Jastrun