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. — Zbigniew Herbert Copy Share Image
“I do not turn to history to draw from it an easy lesson of hope, but to confront my experience with that of others, to acquire something I might call universal compassion, and also a sense of responsibility, responsibility for… — Zbigniew Herbert Copy Share Image
Inanimate objects are always correct and cannot, unfortunately, be reproached with anything. I have never observed a chair shift from one foot to another,… — Zbigniew Herbert Copy Share Image
“Ubrzo sam shvatio da u meni postoje dva Akropolja, dnevni i noćni. Prvi je bio analitičan, s vodičevom glavom. Provera plana, istraživanje strukture celine,… — Zbigniew Herbert Copy Share Image
“Grčki pejzaž mi se obratio patetičnim glasom mita i tragedije. Bio je to dominantan utisak. Nametljivo prisustvo gole zemlje, veoma izreckanih stenovitih masa, pojačano… — Zbigniew Herbert Copy Share Image
And if the City falls and one survives he shall carry the City within on the roads of exile he shall be the City — Zbigniew Herbert Copy Share Image
Be courageous when the mind deceives you Be courageous In the final account only this is important — Zbigniew Herbert Copy Share Image
“when the Lord built the world he furrowed his brow calculated calculated calculated that is why the world is perfect and uninhabitable instead the… — Zbigniew Herbert Copy Share Image
I could write a treatise on the sudden transformation of life into archaeology — Zbigniew Herbert Copy Share Image
Even if we love someone very much, at times it happens that we forget about it. — Zbigniew Herbert Copy Share Image
“Sa teme pejzaža pero mi je često klizilo u oblast legendi i istorije. Tu vezu koja postoji između pejzaža Grčke, njene umetnosti i verovanja… — Zbigniew Herbert Copy Share Image
“Svoje dogodovštine zabavno opisuje engleski crtač Edvard Dodvel. Radio je na Akropolju, koristeći camera obscura - prototip fotografskog aparata koji je davao umanjenu sliku… — Zbigniew Herbert Copy Share Image
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… — Zbigniew Herbert Copy Share Image
