Top 25 Quotes by Witold Gombrowicz of 30 - Page 2

Great poetry must be admired, because it is great and because it is poetry, and so we admire it.

Great poetry must be admired, because it is great and because it is poetry, and so we admire it.

Admire, Great Poetry

Witold Gombrowicz (2012). “Ferdydurke”, p.43, Yale University Press

You are ugly when you love her, you are beautiful and fresh, vital and free, modern and poetic when you don't... you are more beautiful as an orphan than as your mother's son.

Witold Gombrowicz

Beautiful, Mother, Son

You, oh mature ones, keep company solely with other mature ones, and your maturity is so mature that it can only chum up with maturity!

Witold Gombrowicz

Maturity, Mature, Company

I could have protested of course, who says I couldn't--I could have risen to my feet at any moment, walked up to them, and--no matter how difficult it would have been--made it abundantly clear that I was not seventeen but thirty. I could have--yet I couldn't because I didn't want to, the only thing I wanted was to prove that I was not an old-fashioned boy!

Witold Gombrowicz

Boys, Feet, Want

Witold Gombrowicz (2012). “Ferdydurke”, p.113, Yale University Press