Quotes by Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont

Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont

Being twenty years old, I naturally had a wild imagination and a tender heart.

Heart

Wild Imagination

Years

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.

Thorough Knowledge

Writing

Years

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.

Blood

Country

Land

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.

Order

Way

Weed

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.

Romantic Poetry

Use

World

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.

Justice

Real

Suffering

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Quotes by Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont

Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont

Being twenty years old, I naturally had a wild imagination and a tender heart.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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