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, dodirivanje kamenja, zamišljanje onog što je propalo - poput studije anatomije iskopane životinje. Prvi pokušaji privikavanja, uspostavljanja ličnog odnosa prema spomeniku kulture. "Za sebe" sam izabrao Propileje i Partenon. Zbog njihove energije, mase i reda. Hram… — Zbigniew Herbert Copy Share
“Grčki pejzaž mi se obratio patetičnim glasom mita i tragedije. Bio je to dominantan utisak. Nametljivo prisustvo gole zemlje, veoma izreckanih stenovitih masa, pojačano je oskudnošću biljnog pokrivača. Veliko drveće - topola, tisa, hrast - raste u dolinama, mada se šuma uvek povlači pred pritiskom niskog, bodljikavog žbunja koje nadvladava sve. Iz istorijskih predanja znamo da su danas gole padine… — Zbigniew Herbert Copy Share
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
