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About Stanisław Jerzy Lec
Stanisław Jerzy Lec (6 March 1909 – 7 May 1966) was a Polish poet and aphorist.
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“When everything has to be right, something isn't.”
“'' Burząc pomniki, oszczędzajcie cokoły. Zawsze mogą się przydać.”
“Optimists and pessimists differ only on the date of the end of the world.”
“Żaden płatek śniegu nie czuje się odpowiedzialny za lawinę. ”
“The moment of recognizing your own lack of talent is a flash of genius.”
“Those who are ahead of their time often have to wait for it in uncomfortable quarters.”
“Nawet w jego milczeniu były błędy językowe.
• Variant translation: Even in his silence were grammatical errors.”
• Variant translation: Even in his silence were grammatical errors.”
“He who had dug his own grave
looks attentively
at the gravedigger's work,
but not pedantically:
for this one
digs a grave
not for himself.”
looks attentively
at the gravedigger's work,
but not pedantically:
for this one
digs a grave
not for himself.”
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Stanisław Jerzy Lec on Silence
“There are grammatical errors even in his silence.”
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Stanisław Jerzy Lec on Voltaire
“No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.”
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“Every great writer has one single obsession, and Lec tells us: "I wanted to tell the world just one word. Unable to do it I became a writer." And in another aphorism one is reminded of Picasso as he characteristically moves towards his creation through a continual grappling with and destruction of chaotic forms: "What is chaos? It is the Order destroyed during Creation." It was also Picasso who memorably called art "a lie which tells the truth", and Lec comes pretty close to the maestro with this one: "A beautiful lie? Listen! That's creativity." Lec sums up the predicament of the one gifted with creative powers, the well-known neurotic, pathological condition of the artist, in such words: "The richer your imagination, the poorer you feel." But then Lec also assures him: "Every bush can burn if you fire it with your imagination." Yet all that anguish and loneliness may be worth it for: "To suffer heartaches and not be a poet? Whatever for?"”
About Stanisław Jerzy Lec
Stanisław Jerzy Lec (6 March 1909 – 7 May 1966) was a Polish poet and aphorist.