Mieczyslaw Jastrun Quotes

• Art cannot progress by sticking to what is already familiar.

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  Art, Progress, Familiar

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

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  Demand, Absurd, Poetry Is

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• From laboratories employing complex apparatus, poetry often emerges into the outside world after a long lapse of time, just as some scientific discoveries become common property only after they have entered the blood stream of the generations.

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  Blood, Discovery, Long

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

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  Circles, Allies, Poet

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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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  Imagination, Solitude, Poet

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• Poetry, in the entire course of its development, has always been trying to capture meanings and problems which are still obscure and dormant. Poetry tries to awaken them with a kiss, wherever they may be: in the air, in things, in human beings.

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  Kissing, Air, Trying

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

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  Likes, Social

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

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  Age, Likes, Spirit

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• The history of the creative progress of individual artists shows that, along with their spiritual growth and the increasing complexity of their inner life, their forms of expression become more complex.

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  Spiritual, Artist, Expression

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

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  Past, Age, Sage

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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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  Unique, World, Way

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• Solitude is an essential element of poetry.

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  Solitude, Essentials, Elements

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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 of various cultural and life processes. Instead of using their imagination, they try to read the future by observing the hands of a clock which is still busy measuring the past.

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  Past, Hands, Errors

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• 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.

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  Precious Possessions, Speak, Environment

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• Tradition remains alive only when we struggle with it.

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  Struggle, Alive, Tradition

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