Juliusz Słowacki — a remark

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“Everything on earth can be done, provided that we always keep before our eyes the straight path, one star, God, and seek through the spirit's deeds the body's achievement of the spirit's immortality.”

Original: Wszystko na ziemi robić można, byle zawsze przed oczyma mieć drogę prostą, jedną gwiazdę – Boga – zdobycie przez ducha swego czynami ciała nieśmiertelności ducha. — He connects purposeful action with spiritual aspiration and immortality. · Letter to his mother, 28 November 1843 (Polish)

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Juliusz Słowacki

4 September 1809–3 April 1849

Juliusz Słowacki was born on 4 September 1809 in Krzemieniec, in Volhynia, a town then located within the Russian Empire and now known as Kremenets in Ukraine. He died in Paris on 3 April 1849, not yet forty years old, but by then he had produced a body of poetry and drama of extraordinary range, daring, and…

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“Whoever comes first with such poetry, I shall make a pedestal of all my books for him and lie beneath his feet myself, so that he may stand higher.”

Original: Kto pierwszy z taką poezyą przyjdzie, ja mu z wszystkich książek moich postument zrobię, i sam się położę pod nogami, aby stał wyżej i prawdę zawsze oglądał z wysoka. — He values poetry that serves truth so highly that personal literary fame becomes secondary. · Letter to his mother, February 1845 (Polish)

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