Miron Białoszewski
Miron Białoszewski
Miron Białoszewski (30 June 1922 – 17 June 1983) was a Polish poet, novelist, playwright and actor.
Quotes from poems
[edit]- a man a Miron agonizes agonizes
again he’s a talossfor
an utter can’t utter
er
- death death
so much of her
that it discourage
the pride of dying- Death
- don't move from here
don't go anywhere
to no other planets
unless they're here -
so
whatever happened
pretend we don't know each other- Old prose. New poems.
- Don't think I'm unhappy.
I'm glad I think.
Think I'm glad- Joyful self-portrait
- existence
by non-existence
pulled by the hair- Don't sing!
- First I went down to the street on stairs,
oh, imagine, the stairs.- Ballad about going down to the store
- Get in, madonnas
madonnas
To six-horse carriages
... ix-horse!- Carousel with madonnas
- I have a furnace
similar to the triumphal gate!
They're taking away my furnace
similar to the triumphal gate!!
Give me back
furnace similar to a triumphal gate!!!
They took it away.
All that was left of him
grey
naked
cavity
grey naked cavity
And this is enough for me:
grey naked cavity
grey naked cavity
gre – y – na – ked – cavi – ty
greynakedcavity.- Oh, if they took even a furnace away... My inexhaustible ode to joy
- I went into a full store;
glass lamps were burning,
I saw someone - who sat down,
and what did I hear?... what did I hear?
the rustling of bags and human speech.
Well, really
Really
I'm back.- Ballad about going down to the store
- i assumed: one day you'll get bored of me
but
still still
i'm waiting
you come
still
i'm waiting
you're not coming
yes, that's it
[I didn't assumed]- ! O !
- I am a Denderowianka.
I don't know what that means.- Denderowianka
- i'm myself
i'm stupid
what should i do
and what should i do
- I went to the p p ph armacy
A a apo thecary
- Sir, we do not sell over the counter
I ask her
- Are you ours too?
- I'm Vietnamese
I left, with Asia, you never know- The pharmacy
- my head hurts me and myself
- thinking
- – Ralla
la laa – radio with woman
– uuu! – somewhere child
– Ralla
la laa! – woman
– uu! – child
– Ral
la la – woman
– uu – child
– Ra
la la –
– u
oh
my ear went crazy?
and then no:
sunday
moves
hang in there, people!- Apartment block, me in it
- She liked Art Nouveau.
She was depressed.
Now she meditates.
Something starting with "ę".
She vibrates.- Accident from Old prose. New poems
- she walked around and looked into pots
- they don't cook buttermilk?
and then she got drunk
she was selling four linden trees with a cross
as they said
she said
- I didn't sell it
- I didn't sell it
and beat with an iron- Kitten
- Tekla Tekla Tekla Tekla
Tekla, the clock is calling you...
Tekla is gone, Tekla has left.- I would like to point out: I could have misheard
- that lying on like that and thinking
it is naturally bad
because in the nature
i'm just lying there thinking
then something will attack me and eat me- Lying on
- The chicken with cucumber is ready
the weather is there
she put her teeth on
grab the bucket
for water
leans over
teeth splash into the well
and here are the guests on their way- An old name day in the countryside
- They're looking at me,
so I probably have a face.
Of all the familiar faces,
I remember my own the least.- Noticeable self-portrait
Other quotes
[edit]- And [people] don't want to understand the first layer of the poem - its literalness. They immediately want to perceive something other than what is there.
- interview for "Przekrój", 1967
- I'm not worried about (...) not being. Finally peace from everything. The state of not being well known to me. I haven't been there once. Until 1922. Others too. They just forget.
About Miron Białoszewski
[edit]- Białoszewski was quite a hipster.
- Author: Tadeusz Sobolewski
- Source: www.polskieradio.pl
- He was poor until 1956, sometimes only able to afford portions of rice at a milk bar; he cheated on hunger with psychedrine or other available means. But that's when his writing exploded (...) he led the life of a French surrealist or a New York beatnik.
- Author: Tadeusz Sobolewski
- Source: Introduction to the Secret Diary, quoted in: Kamil Sipowicz, Encyclopedia of Polish psychedelia, Warsaw 2013.
- Miron knew when he would die. He told me this: that he knows. That he is completely empty. There is a belief in Egypt that if you walk around the Sphinx and say a wish, it will come true. He had no wish then. He thought for a long time what to say, and finally came up with: just to make sure he doesn't run out of codeine for the rest of his life. And indeed there was plenty.
- Author: Anna Żurowska
- Source: Kamil Sipowicz, Encyclopedia of Polish psychedelia, Warsaw 2013.
