Juliusz Słowacki — a remark

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“I would like to know everything. Your country seems so beautiful to me when I have almost no hope of seeing it, when I cannot even think of returning.”

Original: Ja bym chciał wiedzieć o wszystkim. Wasz kraj tak mi się pięknym wydaje, kiedy nie mam prawie nadziei widzieć go, kiedy — o powrocie ani myśleć. — Exile transforms his homeland into something increasingly precious through distance. · Letter to his mother, 24 January 1832 (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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