Mieczyslaw Quotes

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

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

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

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#4. 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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#5. Senator [Ted] Cruz is not qualified to be president because he doesn't have the right temperament and acted like a maniac when he arrived in the Senate.

Donald Trump

#6. 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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#7. America is 5 percent of the world's population and consumes 96 percent of the world's hard drugs.

Dick Gregory

#8. You can get so many sounds out of one record. Every record can be used in some way.

Christian Marclay

#9. Tradition remains alive only when we struggle with it.

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

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#11. 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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#12. Art cannot progress by sticking to what is already familiar.

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#13. When one is out of touch with oneself, one cannot touch others.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#14. I think those that are holier-than-thou don't make jokes. They take themselves too seriously and Peeta doesn't take himself too seriously. This is what I believe in and I'm comfortable with that and I can make a joke here and there.

Josh Hutcherson

#15. 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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#16. Doom scenarios, even though they might be true, are not politically or psychologically effective. The first step ... is to make us love the world rather than to make us fear for the end of the world.

Gary Snyder

#17. Solitude is an essential element of poetry.

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#18. 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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#19. Electricity is of two kinds, positive and negative. The difference is, I presume, that one comes a little more expensive, but is more durable; the other is a cheaper thing, but the moths get into it.

Stephen Leacock

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

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

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