"Even if we love someone very much, at times it happens that we forget about it."

--

Source : Zbigniew Herbert (1977). “Selected poems”

Zbigniew Herbert

“By persistent labor man may attain to all excellence.”
“When people see the terrible scenes of violence on television, when we mourn the death of each and every American man and woman in uniform or a civilian that's killed, that it's hard to see the progress that's being made and it's hard to believe that this is all going to come out for the better.”
“But as I see it, the most corrupt art is the sentimental the art of orange blossoms which make pale women swoon.”

Source : 1883 Letter to his son Lucien.
“I had a nightmare last night. I dreamed Dolly Parton was my mother and I was a bottle baby.”
“Art for art's sake? I should think so, and more so than ever at the present time. It is the one orderly product which our middling race has produced. It is the cry of a thousand sentinels, the echo from a thousand labyrinths, it is the lighthouse which cannot be hidden. It is the best evidence we can have of our dignity.”
“I'm never sick when you are well.”
“When we have peace in our hearts and minds, we draw peace into our lives.”
“I think the main way that somebody would know they're translucent is that their life has become more about the embodiment of Spirit than about acquisition, and that may be something that creeps up on you.”

Source : Source: www.edgemagazine.net

You may also like: