"Once in a while it vanishes - in the sense that I become deaf to beauty for a week or two or three. This coming and going of the inner life - because this is what it is - is a curse and a blessing. I don't need to explain why it's a curse. A blessing because it brings about a movement, an energy which, when it peaks, creates a poem. Or a moment of happiness."

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Source : Interview with Anna Maria Hong, www.pw.org. August 13, 2004.

Adam Zagajewski

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“Any society that entails the strengthening of the state apparatus by giving it unchecked control over the economy, and re-unites the polity and the economy, is an historical regression. In it there is no more future for the public, or for the freedoms it supported, than there was under feudalism.”
“This law (regarding the theoretical efficiency of heat engines by Mr. Joule), and the law of the maximum efficiency of heat engines, are particular cases of a general law which regulates all transformation of energy, and is the basis of the Science of Energetics.”
“Nothing like watching your relatives fight, I always say.”
“Once I win, everyone will know who my instructor is in mixed martial arts.”
“Itâ€™s been too hard living, but Iâ€™m afraid to die. â€˜Cause I donâ€™t know whatâ€™s up there, beyond the sky.”
“Drill instructors worked seven days a week, fifteen to seventeen hours a day in many cases, with no time off in between platoons.”
“I enjoy the independence of single-handling a boat. I like controlling the elements, making the wind and the waves and the water work for me.”
“I owe my father everything.”

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