Dying - you can't do that to a cat.

Poetic talent doesn't operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.

At the very beginning of my creative life I loved humanity. I wanted to do something good for mankind. Soon I understood that it isn't possible to save mankind.

I usually write for the individual reader -though I would like to have many such readers. There are some poets who write for people assembled in big rooms, so they can live through something collectively. I prefer my reader to take my poem and have a one-on-one relationship with it.

Nothing's a gift, it's all on loan

We're extremely fortunate not to know precisely the kind of world we live in. One would have to live a long, long time, unquestionably longer than the world itself.

No one feels good at four in the morning. If ants feel good at four in the morning —three cheers for the ants.