Environment Quote by 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 ourselves and with God.”

Mieczyslaw Jastrun

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Tradition remains alive only when we struggle with it.

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

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

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Solitude is an essential element of poetry.

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

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

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

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