Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz

Polish poet, essayist, dramatist, and writer (1894-1980).

Born February 20th, 1894 in Kyiv Governorate. [ref]

Died March 2nd, 1980 at 86 years old in Warsaw. [ref]

Occupations
diarist, diplomat, essayist, librettist, musicologist, playwright, poet, screenwriter, translator, writer

Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is just a passing shadow of a cloud. Yann Martel