Zbigniew Herbert Professions : Poet Born : October 29, 1924 Died : July 28, 1998 Browse All Authors Top 11 quotes by Zbigniew Herbert No time to grieve for roses when the forests are burning. Zbigniew Herbert grief rose grieving Even if we love someone very much, at times it happens that we forget about it. Zbigniew Herbert love-someone happens forget Study the world's skin before you set out to look for its heart. Zbigniew Herbert skins heart advice 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 lessons responsibility winning Be courageous when the mind deceives you Be courageous In the final account only this is important Zbigniew Herbert finals important mind And if the City falls and one survives Zbigniew Herbert exile cities fall Inanimate objects are always correct and cannot, unfortunately, be reproached with anything. I have never observed a chair shift from one foot to another, or a bed rear on its hind legs. And tables, even when they are tired, will not dare to bend their knees. I suspect that objects do this from pedagogical considerations, to reprove us constantly for our instability. Zbigniew Herbert tired bed feet I could write a treatise on the sudden transformation of life into archaeology Zbigniew Herbert archaeology transformation writing I 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 Herbert creating beautiful past The dead have need of fairy tales too. Zbigniew Herbert fairy-tale fairy needs forgive 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 Herbert fighting moon museums Similar Authors Abdellatif Laabi poet Ihara Saikaku poet Abram Joseph Ryan poet Ingeborg Bachmann poet Izumi Shikibu poet Bion of Smyrna poet All Authors
