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Zbigniew Herbert
11 quotes
“And if the City falls and one survives he shall carry the City within on the roads of exile he shall be the City”
Zbigniew Herbert (1924–1998) said by 1998 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And now I won't be on any of them group photo (proud proof of my death in all literary weekly magazines in the world) when someone will say, look, you see - it's Zbyszek - pointing finger at a man struggling with a suitcase - but that's not it I'm someone else who isn't even from this industry there is no me and there is complete emptiness”
Zbigniew Herbert (1924–1998) said by 1998 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Jeśli tematem sztuki będzie dzbanek rozbity mała rozbita dusza z wielkim żalem nad sobą to co po nas zostanie będzie jak płacz kochanków w małym brudnym hotelu kiedy świtają tapety”
Zbigniew Herbert (1924–1998) said by 1998 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Go where the others have gone, to the tenebrous limit for the golden fleece of void, your ultimate prize go upright among those who are on their knees among those turning their backs on and those fallen to dust.”
Zbigniew Herbert (1924–1998) said by 1998 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And do not forgive indeed it is beyond your power to forgive in the name of those betrayed at dawn”
Zbigniew Herbert (1924–1998) said by 1998 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You survived not to live on your time is short, you have to give a proof of truth”
Zbigniew Herbert (1924–1998) said by 1998 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Go for it is the only way to be accepted to the circle of cold skulls the circle of your forefathers: Gilgamesh Hector Roland defenders of the kingdom of no frontiers and of the city of ashes Be faithful Go”
Zbigniew Herbert (1924–1998) said by 1998 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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 Herbert (1924–1998) said by 1998 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Now that we're alone we can talk prince man to man though you lie on the stairs and see no more than a dead ant.”
Zbigniew Herbert (1924–1998) said by 1998 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Adieu prince I have tasks a sewer project and a decree on prostitutes and beggar I must also elaborate a better system of prisons since as you justly said Denmark is a prison I go to my affairs This night is born a star named Hamlet We shall never meet what I shall leave will not be worth a tragedy It is not for us to greet each other or bid farewell we live on archipelagos and that water these words what can they do what can they do prince.”
Zbigniew Herbert (1924–1998) said by 1998 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The liver is not a gentleman.”
Zbigniew Herbert (1924–1998) first seen 1954 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: quote from Leopold Tyrmand Diary 1954