"No time to grieve for roses when the forests are burning."
"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"
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Source: Zbigniew Herbert, John Carpenter, Bogdana Carpenter (1985). “Raport z oblezonego miasta i inne wiersze”, Ecco Pr
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