Zbigniew Herbert Quotes

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Even if we love someone very much, at times it happens that we forget about it.

Zbigniew Herbert

The pebble
is a perfect creature
equal to itself mindful of its limits
filled exactly
with a pebbly meaning

Zbigniew Herbert

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 Herbert

Be courageous when the mind deceives you Be courageous In the final account only this is important

Zbigniew Herbert

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 Herbert

I could write a treatise on the sudden transformation of life into archaeology

Zbigniew Herbert

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 Herbert

Zbigniew Herbert

Zbigniew Herbert

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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

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