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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Comments about Zbigniew Herbert
- The_karsonist: you must dream patiently hoping the content will be completed that the missing words enter crippled sentences and the certainty we are waiting for casts anchor (zbigniew herbert)
- Isamaralee: pebbles cannot be tamed to the end they will look at us with a calm and very clear eye." zbigniew herbert
- Bigginswayne: i'll read it if it's with jonathan derbyshire, and they're discussing zbigniew herbert and the influence on wider european culture of 17th century dutch art. otherwise...
- Psephographic: go where those others went to the dark boundary for the golden fleece of nothingness your last prize go upright among those who are on their knees among those with their backs turned and those toppled in the dust you were saved not in order to live - zbigniew herbert
- Psephographic: repeat old incantations of humanity fables and legends because this is how you will attain the good you will not attain repeat great words repeat them stubbornly like those crossing the desert who perished in the sand - zbigniew herbert
