Quotes from Mieczyslaw Jastrun

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

Solitude is an essential element of poetry.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Art cannot progress by sticking to what is already familiar.