Zbigniew Herbert quotes
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“No time to grieve for roses when the forests are burning.”
-- Zbigniew HerbertSource : Zbigniew Herbert (2014). “The Collected Poems 1956 - 1998”, p.19, Atlantic Books Ltd
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“Inanimate objects are always correct and cannot, unfortunately, be reproached with anything. I have never observed a chair shift from one foot to another, or a bed rear on its hind legs. And tables, even when they are tired, will not dare to bend their knees. I suspect that objects do this from pedagogical considerations, to reprove us constantly for our instability.”
-- Zbigniew HerbertSource : Zbigniew Herbert (2014). “The Collected Poems 1956 - 1998”, p.147, Atlantic Books Ltd
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“Study the world's skin before you set out to look for its heart.”
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“I thank You Lord for creating the world beautiful and various and if this is Your seduction I am seduced for good and past all forgiveness”
-- Zbigniew HerbertSource : Zbigniew Herbert (2014). “The Collected Poems 1956 - 1998”, p.358, Atlantic Books Ltd
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“I could write a treatise on the sudden transformation of life into archaeology”
-- Zbigniew HerbertSource : Zbigniew Herbert, John Carpenter, Bogdana Carpenter (1985). “Raport z oblezonego miasta i inne wiersze”, Ecco Pr
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“The dead have need of fairy tales too.”
-- Zbigniew HerbertSource : Zbigniew Herbert (2014). “The Collected Poems 1956 - 1998”, p.47, Atlantic Books Ltd
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“forgive me also that I didn't fight like Lord Byron for the happiness of captive peoples that I watched only risings of the moon and museums”
-- Zbigniew HerbertSource : Zbigniew Herbert, John Carpenter, Bogdana Carpenter (1985). “Raport z oblezonego miasta i inne wiersze”, Ecco Pr
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“I turn to history not for lessons but to confront my experience with the experience of others and to win for myself a sense of responsibility for the state of the human conscience.”
-- Zbigniew HerbertSource : "The Truth of Poetry". Book by Michael Hamburger, 1969.
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“And if the City falls and one survives he shall carry the City within on the roads of exile he shall be the City”
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“Even if we love someone very much, at times it happens that we forget about it.”
-- Zbigniew HerbertSource : Zbigniew Herbert (1977). “Selected poems”
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“Be courageous when the mind deceives you Be courageous In the final account only this is important”
-- Zbigniew HerbertSource : Zbigniew Herbert (1977). “Selected poems”
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