Skip to content

Writers use the same tools (i.e. words) as scientists. They perform on the same stage, but move in the opposite direction. The sciences and poetries do not share words, they polarise them.

— Miroslav Holub

Another quote →

More quotes by Miroslav Holub

The experience of the little discovery is the same when looking into the microscope and when looking at the nascent organism of the poem. It is one of the few real joys of my life.

All Miroslav Holub quotes →

Attribution

Quote text and notes from Wikiquote: Miroslav Holub (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source quality and labels are our own summary of what Wikiquote records.