Zbigniew Herbert quotes

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)
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. View quote
Zbigniew Herbert
Be courageous when the mind deceives you Be courageous In the final account only this is important. View quote
Zbigniew Herbert
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 the kingdom of no frontiers and of the city of ashes Be faithful Go. View quote
Zbigniew Herbert
And do not forgive indeed it is beyond your power to forgive in the name of those betrayed at dawn. View quote
Zbigniew Herbert
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 their knees among those turning their backs on and those fallen to dust. View quote
Zbigniew Herbert
You survived not to live on your time is short, you have to give a proof of truth. View quote
Zbigniew Herbert
if the subject of art will be a broken jug a small broken soul with a great self-pity what will remain of us will be like tears of lovers in a small dirty hotel when wallpapers dawn. View quote
Zbigniew Herbert
His poems, even in English, seem to me finer than anything currently being written by any English or American poet. View quote
Zbigniew Herbert