Very early on, near the beginning of my writing.... : Quote by Zbigniew Herbert

“ Very early on, near the beginning of my writing life, I came to believe that I had to seize on some object outside of literature. Writing as a sylistic exercise seemed barren to me. Poetry as the art of the word made me yawn. I also understood that I couldn't sustain myself very long on the poems of others. I had to go out from myself and literature, look around in the world and lay hold of other spheres of reality. ”

Zbigniew Herbert
  • From : The Collected Prose
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