15 Quotes by Zbigniew Herbert

A bird is a birdSlavery means slaveryA knife is a knifeDeath remains death

Thus I am in Holland, the kingdom of things, great principality of objects. In Dutch, schoen means beautiful and at the same time clean, as if neatness was raised to the dignity of a virtue.

You can be a good painter if you study Cézanne's vision. Whoever dares to copy Van Gogh falls inevitably into the hell of imitators. For this painter didn't care about masterpieces, or even good paintings... but about what is beyond all painting, all art.

Very early on, near the beginning of my writing life, I came to believe that I had to seize on some object outside of literature. Writing as a sylistic exercise seemed barren to me. Poetry as the art of the word made me yawn. I also understood that I couldn't sustain myself very long on the poems of others. I had to go out from myself and literature, look around in the world and lay hold of other spheres of reality.

poza tym jak zwykle handel i kopulacja

monday: empty storehouses a rat became the unit of currency

And if the City falls but a single man escapes. He will carry the City within himself on the roads of exile. He will be the City.

No time to grieve for roses when the forests are burning.

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.