"No strike could ever be won with a Communist at its head since the employers would make victory impossible."

"Poetry is really a way of sharing feelings and ideas."

"I write music every day."

"I've woken up from dreams and the whole song is there. I'm listening to it in my dreams. I consciously have to wake myself up and get a tape recorder because I hear it like a record."

"Poetic talent doesn't operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry."