Who is Zbigniew Herbert
Zbigniew HerbertZbigniew HerbertBorn(1924-10-29)29 October 1924Lwów, PolandDied28 July 1998(1998-07-28) (aged 73)
Warsaw, PolandResting placePowązki CemeteryOccupationPoet, essayistLanguagePolish
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Zbigniew Herbert Poems
- A Knocker
There are those who grow
gardens in their heads
paths lead from their hair
to sunny and white cities ... - Report From Paradise
In paradise the work week is fixed at thirty hours
salaries are higher prices steadily go down
manual labour is not tiring (because of reduced gravity)
chopping wood is no harder than typing ... - Three Poems By Heart
I
I can't find the title
of a memory about you ... - From The Top Of The Stairs
Of course
those who are standing at the top of the stairs
know
they know everything ... - Daedalus And Icarus
Daedalus says:
Go on sonny but remember that you are walking and not flying
the wings are just an ornament and you are stepping on a meadow ...
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- Clpolk: so every sunday i read ordinary plots, and every sunday i get the treat of a beautiful poem and thoughtful observations about it and interesting textual comparisons...a gift, really. read zbigniew herbert's "a life"
- Themoneyiowe: i wrote about exhaustion, expectation, & poems by zbigniew herbert & alen hamza for my newsletter today
- Princessekateri: {poets & painters} whoever dares to copy van gogh falls inevitably into the hell of imitators. for this painter didn't care about masterpieces, or even good paintings... but about what is beyond all painting, all art. ~ zbigniew herbert
- Princessekateri: “we fall asleep on words / we wake among words” ― zbigniew herbert
