German Quote by Sylvia Plath

“Poland! Poland! The very name carries with it sighings and groanings, nation-murder, brilliance, beauty, patriotism, splendors, self-sacrifice through generations of gallant men and exquisite…

— Henryk Sienkiewicz

Polish comes from the cities; wisdom from the desert.

— Frank Herbert

“In Poland there is a meaning to defeat that perhaps is unknown in countries differently situated. Along with a strong sense of unity as…

— Jan Karski

“Am Anfang war Gott? It may have been true, but it was not germane.”

— Stephen Craig

“The cities of Russia and Poland were burned, their inhabitants tortured and massacred, with the consequence that progress was retarded for centuries. Almost”

— T. Lothrop Stoddard

“I remember what seemed to me a bright remark he made after a month's stay in England about the difference between Polish and English…

— Stanislaw M. Ulam

“In the superficial activity of her life, she was all English. She even thought in English. But her long blanks and darkness of abstraction…

— D.H. Lawrence

“I placed no trust in faiths, doctrines, ideologies, institutions. Thus I could stand only upon my own feet. But I was a Pole, molded…

— Witold Gombrowicz

“The Germans are sentimental. Their word Heimweh . The English say homesick; the same in plain Swedish. Hemsjuk . Leave it to the Germans…

— Cynthia Ozick

“systematic ethnic cleansing of the Polish population, in some cases completely eliminating entire Polish communities in order to establish racial purity. It was only…

— Hourly History

“What the glorious retellings of the history of Irgun and Lehi often omit is the Polish connection.”

— Timothy Snyder

“You can't read my shorthand because I wrote in Polish.”

— Ellen Raskin