Agnieszka Osiecka

Agnieszka Osiecka (1965)

Agnieszka Osiecka (9 October 1936 – 7 March 1997) was a Polish poet, writer, author of theatre and television screenplays, film director and journalist. She was a prominent Polish songwriter, having authored the lyrics to more than 2000 songs, and is considered an icon of Polish culture.

Quotes

• And I fell in love so terribly that, for example, I asked him to dance. It was the song "When I dance with you, the world smiles" and he turned me down. I immediately decided to commit suicide. And I remember that I decided to poison myself with gas. I let off the gas and decided to say goodbye to life. And then my mother called out "Agnieszka" or "Agusiu, soup on the table." And I moaned with the dying voice of a siren: "What soup?" And I heard from the kitchen: "Tomato soup." I decided to eat one more meal before I died and somehow this soup strengthened me so much that I am still alive today.
  • Source: nataliiak.blogspot.com

• And I prefer my mother, who has hair like ink, golden eyes like my teddy bear, and she cried this morning.
  • Source: And I prefer my mother

• But I wonder why I was wandering around like that. Instead of celebrating love, instead of gushing about it, I was so nervous because I thought that I would just make it, that I would always be young, that Marek would always be young, that the world would wait for us. And nothing waited and the world was rushing at a dizzying pace.
  • Description: about Marek Hłasko.
  • Source: Beautiful Twenty-Year-Old, dir. Andrzej Titkow, Documentary Film Studio, 1986.

• Long live the ball,
  because this life is a ball above all balls,
  long live the ball,
  they won't invite us a second time,
  the orchestra is playing,
  they are still dancing and the doors are open,
  the day is worth the day
  and this life is worth the effort!
  • Source: Long live the ball!

• Restless rains ruffled the orchard,
  And we've been in this war for quite a few years.
  We'll go home, we'll light the stove,
  We'll feed the dog.
  We will make it before nightfall, only we will win,
  And this is an important game.
  • Ballad of tank men