“I don’t write poetry when I wish, I write when I can’t, when my larynx is flooded and my throat is shut.” Quote by Anna Kamienska
“My poems are more my silence than my speech. Just as music is a kind of quiet. Sounds are needed only to unveil the various layers of silence.” KindSoundSilenceNeededQuietSpeechMusic IsVariousLayers Author:Anna Kamienska
“The formula 'Two and two make five' is not without its attractions.” TwoFivePerspectiveAttractionFormulas Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky
“Letters of the condemned. Last words scratched on a cell’s wall. To write like that.” WritingLastsWallLettersCellsLast Words Author:Anna Kamienska
“The way a source strains toward the light, toward the air. Its laboring work, its effort, its black passageways like despair. That’s the way a poet looks for words. With muscles, gestures.” WayLooksLightBlackEffortAirPoetSourceDespairMusclesGesturesStrain Author:Anna Kamienska
“I am that which lies beyond time. Like a melody, which sounds completely only after the last note is played.” LastsLyingSoundNotesMelody Author:Anna Kamienska
“I have no talent. I write poems for myself, to think things through, that’s all.” ThinkingWritingTalent Author:Anna Kamienska
“Writing down your thoughts is both necessary and harmful. It leads to eccentricity, narcissism, preserves what should be let go. On the other hand, these notes intensify the inner life, which, left unexpressed, slips through your fingers. If only I could find a better kind of journal, humbler, one that would preserve the same thoughts, the same flesh of life, which is worth saving.” IfsShouldWritingKindHandsLeftGoes OnLetting GoNotesFingersFleshSavingPreservesSlipsNarcissismJournalInner LifeEccentricity Author:Anna Kamienska