Quote #8
His poems, even in English, seem to me finer than anything currently being written by any English or American poet.
More from Zbigniew Herbert
- One always goes against the current to reach the wellsprings, it is the trash which flows with the current.
- 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 …
- You survived not to live on your time is short, you have to give a proof of truth
- And do not forgive indeed it is beyond your power to forgive in the name of those betrayed at dawn
- 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 …
- Jesli tematem sztuki bedzie dzbanek rozbity mala rozbita dusza z wielkim zalem nad soba to co po nas zostanie bedzie jak placz kochankow w …
- And if the City falls and one survives he shall carry the City within on the roads of exile he shall be the City