Be courageous when the mind deceives you Be courageous In the final account only this is important
ZBIGNIEW HERBERTBe courageous when the mind deceives you Be courageous In the final account only this is important
ZBIGNIEW HERBERTForgive me also that I didn’t fight like Lord Byron for the happiness of captive peoples that I watched only risings of the moon and museums.
ZBIGNIEW HERBERTI could write a treatise on the sudden transformation of life into archaeology
ZBIGNIEW HERBERTNo time to grieve for roses when the forests are burning.
ZBIGNIEW HERBERTI 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 HERBERTAnd if the City falls and one survives he shall carry the City within on the roads of exile he shall be the City
ZBIGNIEW HERBERTEven if we love someone very much, at times it happens that we forget about it.
ZBIGNIEW HERBERTStudy the world’s skin before you set out to look for its heart.
ZBIGNIEW HERBERTI thank You Lord for creating the world beautiful and various and if this is Your seduction I am seduced for good and past all forgiveness
ZBIGNIEW HERBERTThe dead have need of fairy tales too.
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