Art cannot progress by sticking to what is already familiar.

- Mieczyslaw Jastrun

Poetry, in the entire course of its development, has always been trying to capture meanings and problems which are still obscure and dormant. Poetry …

- Mieczyslaw Jastrun

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

- Mieczyslaw Jastrun

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 …

- Mieczyslaw Jastrun

From laboratories employing complex apparatus, poetry often emerges into the outside world after a long lapse of time, just as some scientific discov…

- 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 wit…

- Mieczyslaw Jastrun

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

- Mieczyslaw Jastrun

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

- Mieczyslaw Jastrun

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.

- Mieczyslaw Jastrun