Jan Lechoń

Jan Lechoń

Leszek Józef Serafinowicz (pen name: Jan Lechoń; 13 March 1899 – 8 June 1956) was a Polish poet, literary and theater critic, diplomat, and co-founder of the Skamander literary movement and the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America.

Quotes

• And in spring - let me see spring, not Poland.
  • Herostrates

• A night with you - this is one thing that works like hashish,
  Only one thing you can believe in unconsciously.
  And I don't know if there is love apart from your body
  And I know you don't love me, that you will forget about me.
  • Impurity

• I feel very bad today, I feel very sad,
  My thoughts are withered, sick, like flowers on a grave,
  Outside the windows, the sky hangs like a gray canvas.
  I can't love you or think about you today.
  • Jealousy

• I know now: it's as bright as the sun in the sky,
  And the heart must die under heavy mourning,
  Because I will never take you to myself for eternity.
  You will never be me and I will never be you.
  • Jealousy

• You ask what is the most important thing in my life,
  I'll tell you: death and love - both.
  • You ask what is the most important thing in my life

• What to do? I have to get drunk on a bottle of ambrosia,
  What's left of my youthful banquets.
  I leave with a rose in my hand, with the moon under my armpit,
  And I leave the rest for new poets.
  • Unfashionable poet