"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"

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Source : Zbigniew Herbert (2014). “The Collected Poems 1956 - 1998”, p.358, Atlantic Books Ltd

Zbigniew Herbert

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“You've got to know what goes between the notes.”
“It's very rare that I get stopped or get asked for an autograph or anything - none of which I mind - but people don't really care that much.”
“A line has to be drawn somewhere between what is essential and what is peripheral.”

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