“A free peasant means free Poland, for he is the foundation of her greatness and independence.” MeanGreatnessIndependenceFoundationPeasantsPoland Author:Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont
“An irresistible fascination with terrifying death killed me ahead of time.” FascinationIrresistibleAhead Of Time Author:Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont
“Being twenty years old, I naturally had a wild imagination and a tender heart.” YearsHeartImaginationTwentiesTender HeartsWild Imagination Author:Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont
“By the age of nine I had a thorough knowledge of contemporary Polish literature as well as of foreign literature in Polish translation, and I began to write poems in honour of a lady of thirty years. Naturally, she knew nothing about them.” WritingYearsWellsAgeLiteratureNineContemporaryThirtyHonourTranslationsPolishThirty YearsThoroughThorough Knowledge Author:Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont
“Every lord's mansion stands on the foundation of your bones, soldier, every field has been saturated with your sweat, and you, peasant, even if you worked your arms down to the stub, if you won a hundred battles, and faithfully gave the last drop of your blood for your country, you would always be a slave. There is no land for you, no heaven, no shelter, not even a doghouse where you could rest your poor head. You are the last before God and before people, the last one.” PeopleIfsHas BeensCountryLastsHeavenPoorLordBloodLandFieldsArmsBattleHundredFoundationSlaveSoldierBonesSweatShelterPeasantsMansionsBe A SlaveSaturated Author:Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont
“Everything must go its own way. One has to plow in order to sow, one has to sow in order to harvest, and what is disturbing has to be weeded out, like a bad weed.” WayOrderWeedHarvestDisturbingEverything Must Go Author:Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont
“I was intoxicated by the romantic poetry of our great writers. I arranged the world according to my private use, looking at it through the poems I had devoured.” WorldUseGreat WritersIntoxicatedRomantic Poetry Author:Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont
“It is only our exactions of life that are terrible. It is only our impossible conceptions of beauty and good and justice that are terrible--because they never are realized, and at the same time they prevent us taking life as it is. That is the real source of all our sorrow and suffering.” RealSufferingJusticeImpossibleSourceTerribleSorrowConception Author:Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont
“Our duty is to rise in the bright daylight, openly, beating the drums. The cause for which we are ready to give our necks does not fear the light, and to attack the enemy by guile would not suit it. A Pole has always despised ambushes, and God forbid that he should change. We shall not fail to have enough strength to defeat our enemies if we do not fail to have the spirit of sacrifice and love.” IfsGivingShouldDoeEnoughLightSpiritCausesEnemyFailingSacrificeReadyDutyAnd LoveDefeatSuitsNecksDaylightDespisedGuileLove And Sacrifice Author:Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont
