Quote of the day
The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.
Zbigniew Herbert
Born: October 29, 1924
Died: July 28, 1998 (aged 73)
Bio: Zbigniew Herbert was a Polish poet, essayist, drama writer and moralist. A member of the Polish resistance movement, Home Army, during World War II, he is one of the best known and the most translated post-war Polish writers.
Known for:
- Barbarian in the Garden (1962)
- Elegy for the Departure (1990)
- Still Life with a Bridle (1993)
- The Collected Poems: 1956-1998
- The labyrinth on the sea