Beautiful Quote by Zbigniew Herbert

“We fall asleep on words / we wake among words”

— 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,…

— Zbigniew Herbert

“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

The dead have need of fairy tales too.

— Zbigniew Herbert

“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

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

“A craftsman must probe to the very bottom of cruelty.”

— Zbigniew Herbert

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

— Zbigniew Herbert

“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

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

— Zbigniew Herbert

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

— Zbigniew Herbert

“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