"I'm only 42 years old, so I probably have a long time ahead of me. And wouldn't it be possible to meet death? Wouldn't that be normal in my situation?"

"You will be happier with him, You will be much happier with him. Me, well – Vagabond, restless spirit, Only with me you can Go to the moor And forget everything."

"I walk here, I walk there Always alone in a crowd of people."

"I'm dying For my sins and my innocence"

"Białoszewski was quite a hipster."

"I'm not worried about (...) not being. Finally peace from everything. The state of not being well known to me. I haven't been there once. Until 1922. Others too. They just forget."

"He was poor until 1956, sometimes only able to afford portions of rice at a milk bar; he cheated on hunger with psychedrine or other available means. But that's when his writing exploded (...) he led the life of a French surrealist or a New York beatnik."

"Yes in my hermitage it tempts: loneliness world memory and that I consider myself a poet."

"when i lie down i am unable to get up"

"And [people] don't want to understand the first layer of the poem - its literalness. They immediately want to perceive something other than what is there."

"Miron knew when he would die. He told me this: that he knows. That he is completely empty. There is a belief in Egypt that if you walk around the Sphinx and say a wish, it will come true. He had no wish then. He thought for a long time what to say, and finally came up with: just to make sure he doesn't run out of codeine for the rest of his life. And indeed there was plenty."

"that lying on like that and thinking it is naturally bad because in the nature i'm just lying there thinking then something will attack me and eat me"

"Tekla Tekla Tekla Tekla Tekla, the clock is calling you... Tekla is gone, Tekla has left."

"The chicken with cucumber is ready the weather is there she put her teeth on grab the bucket for water leans over teeth splash into the well and here are the guests on their way"

"– Ralla la laa – radio with woman – uuu! – somewhere child – Ralla la laa! – woman – uu! – child – Ral la la – woman – uu – child – Ra la la – – u oh my ear went crazy? and then no: sunday moves hang in there, people!"

"I am a Denderowianka. I don't know what that means."

"i assumed: one day you'll get bored of me but still still i'm waiting you come still i'm waiting you're not coming yes, that's it [I didn't assumed]"

"i'm myself i'm stupid what should i do and what should i do"

"She liked Art Nouveau. She was depressed. Now she meditates. Something starting with "ę". She vibrates."

"They're looking at me, so I probably have a face. Of all the familiar faces, I remember my own the least."

"I carry it with me some of my own place. When I lose it"

"First I went down to the street on stairs, oh, imagine, the stairs."

"i have a break in my hair i'm here all the time just a hair and i would be beautiful"

"don't move from here don't go anywhere to no other planets unless they're here - so whatever happened pretend we don't know each other"

"I have a furnace similar to the triumphal gate! They're taking away my furnace similar to the triumphal gate!! Give me back furnace similar to a triumphal gate!!! They took it away. All that was left of him grey naked cavity grey naked cavity And this is enough for me: grey naked cavity grey naked cavity gre – y – na – ked – cavi – ty greynakedcavity."

"everyone is for themselves the most important because if you don't agree with yourself it is what it is anyway"

"existence by non-existence pulled by the hair"

"my head hurts me and myself"

"she walked around and looked into pots - they don't cook buttermilk? and then she got drunk she was selling four linden trees with a cross as they said she said - I didn't sell it - I didn't sell it and beat with an iron"

"i was afraid of my stomach squeaking confused him with an invisible mouse."

"How glad I am that you are the sky and the kaleidoscope, that you have so many artificial stars, that you shine so brightly in a monstrance, when you lift your hollow half-globe around the eyes under the air. How immeasurable in wealth you are, colander spoon!"

"Get in, madonnas madonnas To six-horse carriages ... ix-horse!"

"Don't get lost. Be there. Let's pass each other, let's pass each other but let's not skip it. Let's pass. We, You who fly and you are pushed."

"I went into a full store; glass lamps were burning, I saw someone - who sat down, and what did I hear?... what did I hear? the rustling of bags and human speech. Well, really Really I'm back."

"death death so much of her that it discourage the pride of dying"

"I went to the p p ph armacy A a apo thecary - Sir, we do not sell over the counter I ask her - Are you ours too? - I'm Vietnamese I left, with Asia, you never know"

"a man a Miron agonizes agonizes again he’s a talossfor an utter can’t utter er"

"Don't think I'm unhappy. I'm glad I think. Think I'm glad"

"His wife called me sikorka, tit, as in the bird with the blue head and lime belly. She took care of me sometimes."

"Have I been hard on you, myself, have I been hard on myself like a pestle in good hands, crushing the required pepper?"

"Every morning since I left you has been still, so radiant and fragrant and free, then turning out tasteless once I bite into the old tangerine discrepancy between frenzy and dullness. See, I’m your stupid tooth—made explicitly to break you into pieces. Now I’m unemployed, working harder than ever. Now I keep a cow tooth in my wallet, for luck, and much more of the whole skull in my subconscious, for some sense of riddleage in this cosmos, zones of mystical cartilage, I don’t know, I want to be superstitious."

"You will die when you have loved Big things with stupid love."

"Was that a bullet, son, or did that heart break?"

"Listen, I think you'll be bigger than me."

"I would love to grab you in my arms and kiss you... But I'm afraid..."

"I will say: without being - I am."

"my name was Krzysztof, and also the body - it's so little."

"What would have happened if he had not died in the Warsaw Uprising? Who would care about fat old Baczyński eating chicken noodle soup?"

"How good I am with you my heart is beating so much I thought human has no heart."

"I was lying on the bed fully clothed and thinking about the fact that there were various pieces of furniture, books, and pictures hanging here, but it all made no sense. I'm lying here too and I don't make sense either."