Martyna

“A line is a fuse
that's lit.
The line smolders,
the rhyme explodes—
and by a stanza
a city
is blown to bits.”
― Vladimir Mayakovsky

“Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.”
― Thomas Mann, Death in Venice and Other Tales

“Let all of life be an unfettered howl. Like the crowd greeting the gladiator. Don't stop to think, don't interrupt the scream, exhale, release life's rapture.”
― Vladimir Nabokov

“Aby mieć u czytelników powodzenie, trzeba albo umrzeć, albo być obcokrajowcem, albo pisać perwersyjnie. Najlepszy zaś sposób to być zagranicznym perwersyjnym nieboszczykiem.”
― Julian Tuwim