I'm conscious of a series of circles working its way through my life. And at this particular moment I have come round to the beginning of my writing cycle. It begins with poetry. There's hardly a day that goes past on which I don't write poetry.

Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.

Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose.

What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive.

For me, poetry is a situation - a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history.

Poetry is not only a set of words which are chosen to relate to each other it is something which goes much further than that to provide a glimpse of our vision of the world.

Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words.

A grain of poetry suffices to season a century.

I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.

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