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Sometimes I write quickly, sometimes I spend several weeks on a single...

After every war someone has to tidy up.

I have sympathy for young people for their growing pains but I balk when...

I usually write for the individual reader -though I would like to have many...

Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration but isolation...

In the language of poetry where every word is weighed nothing is usual or...

Unfortunately poetry is not born in noise in crowds or on a bus. There...

Everyone needs solitude especially a person who is used to thinking about...

Poetic talent doesn't operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.

I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point...

I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.

Each of us has a very rich nature and can look at things objectively from a...

Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails...

All the best have something in common a regard for reality an agreement to...

Let the people who never find true love keep saying that there's no such...