Zbigniew Herbert 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
• Jesli tematem sztuki bedzie dzbanek rozbity mala rozbita dusza z wielkim zalem nad soba to co po nas zostanie bedzie jak placz kochankow w malym brudnym hotelu kiedy switaja tapety
• 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
• And do not forgive indeed it is beyond your power to forgive in the name of those betrayed at dawn
• You survived not to live on your time is short, you have to give a proof of truth
• 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
• One always goes against the current to reach the wellsprings, it is the trash which flows with the current.
• His poems, even in English, seem to me finer than anything currently being written by any English or American poet.

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