Polish Literature Quotes

#1. In the same period, Polish literature also underwent some significant changes. From social-political literature, which had a great tradition and strong motivation to be that way, Polish literature changed its focus to a psychological rather than a social one.

Andrzej Wajda

#2. By the age of nine, I had a thorough knowledge of contemporary Polish literature as well as of foreign literature in Polish translation, and I began to write poems in honour of a lady of thirty years. Naturally, she knew nothing about them.

Wladyslaw Reymont

#3. Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.

William Cowper

#4. The tombstones smashed in Hebrew cemeteries and plundered for Polish sidewalks; today bored citizens, staring at their feet while waiting for a bus, can still read the inscriptions.

Anne Michaels

#5. Much of our adult morality, in books and out of them, has a stuffiness unworthy of childhood. Our grown-up conclusions often rest on perilously soft bottom.

E.B. White

#6. Your thoughts do not create reality, but they do create your experience.

Alan Cohen

#7. Claire hasn't told me why she behaved as such, although I have a good idea.'
'I suspect you do,' Ellie said quietly.
'Thank you for not embarrassing her before Charles.'
'She didn't need her heart broken twice.

Julia Quinn

#8. The passage from the state of nature to the civil state produces a very remarkable change in man, by substituting justice for instinct in his conduct.

Henri Rousseau

#9. I truly believe that if you put your goals in writing, speak them out loud and work for them, they will happen.

Ciara

#10. Positive culture comes from being mindful, and respecting your coworkers, and being empathetic.

Biz Stone

#11. There wasn't anti-Semitism in France.

Jean-Marie Le Pen

#12. Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet's job. The rest is literature.

Jean Cocteau

#13. I and motherland are one. My name is Million, because for millions do I love and suffer agonies.

Adam Mickiewicz

#14. And we shall all carry on with our hearts set on the next best thing ... because we know how we have lived and understand what we have lost, and aren't willing to lose so much the second time through.

Isabel Aanya Leigh