"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."

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

"– 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!"

"Białoszewski was quite a hipster."

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

"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!"

"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 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."

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

"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."

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

"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"

"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"

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

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

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

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

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

"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"

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

"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."

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

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

"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"

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

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

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

"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."

"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"

"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."

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

"existence by non-existence pulled by the hair"

"Monday - me, Tuesday - me, Wednesday - me, Thursday - me."

"I have never needed God in my life - from my earliest childhood, not even for five minutes - I have always been self-sufficient."

"You don't necessarily have to be a god to have followers."

"Without students, there would be no school, and without school, there would be no teachers."

"Without students, there would be no school, and without school, there would be no life!"

"I demand death homes where everyone would have modern means of easy death at their disposal. Where you could die smoothly, not by throwing yourself in front of a train or hanging yourself on a doorknob. Where a tired, worn-out, finished man could surrender himself to the friendly arms of a specialist so that he could be assured of a death without torture and disgrace. Why not, I ask, why not? Who stops you from civilizing death?"

"Now come, mouths! No, I am not saying goodbye to you, strange and unknown faces of strangers, unknown men who will read me, I welcome you, I welcome you, graceful bundles of body parts, now let it begin - come and join me, start your smooching, give me a new face, so that I will have to run away from you again into other people and run, run, run through all of humanity. For there is no escape from a mouth except into another mouth, and the only way to escape from a man is into the embrace of another. There is no escape from the butt at all. Chase me if you want. I run away with my mouth in my hands."

"It's the end, what a gas, And who's read it is an ass!"

"What's worse, the forest was green."

"I must live with everything I have been given, if I am ever unified, it means that I am holding all the scattered sparks that make me up."

"I despise everyone and I am so disgusted with the intellectual rabble that it makes me vomit."

"But I'm unlucky. Yesterday, when I was pissing in the forest and looking at the landscape, a horsefly bit me in the dick. It swelled up like a balloon and I thought it was going to fall off. But iodine and Staroniewicz saved this valuable utensils for future generations. Today it is only red, but maybe it will fall off. If it falls off, I will send it to you in formaldehyde."

"There are rumors about me, sucked from the big toe of someone's dirty leg."

"And she sat at dinner, oh, mature in her immaturity, self-confident, indifferent and alone, and I sat for her, for her, for her I sat and I could not for one second not sit for her, I was in her, she contained me in her along with my mockery, her tastes, her tastes were decisive for me and I could please myself only insofar as I pleased her."

"Other than that, everything is shit – everything except philosophy, that is. Without her, I'd be just a piece of shit."

"Why does Słowacki arouse admiration and love in us? (…) Because, gentlemen, Słowacki was a great poet!"