Cyprian Norwid
Cyprian Kamil Norwid
Cyprian Kamil Norwid (24 September 1821 – 23 May 1883) was a Polish poet, dramatist, painter, sculptor, and philosopher. He is now considered one of the four most important Polish Romantic poets, though scholars still debate whether he is more aptly described as a late romantic or an early modernist.
Quotes from poems
[edit]- And I played... And I feel even sadder.
- My little song (I)
- Bad, bad always and everywhere.
This black thread is spinning:
She is behind me, in front of me and next to me,
She in every breath
She in every smile
She in tears, in prayer and in hymns...- My little song (I)
- For the country dear where but a crumb of bread
Up from the ground with reverence we heave,
Adoring thus the Boon by Heaven spread…
O Lord I grieve…- My little song (II) (translation: Jarek Zawadzki)
- Hell is merely the impossibility of love.
- Source: Bohdan Drozdowski, Bohdan Urbankowski, From Staff to Wojaczek. Polish poetry 1939–1988. Anthology.
- I want the Czarnolas thing!
- My little song (I)
- The stones groaned silently. The ideal has hit the pavement.
- Chopin's piano
- What have you done to Athens, Socrates?
- Source: Poezja i dobroć. Wybór z utworów, Warszawa 1977, PIW, page 290.
- Why, shadow, are you driving away with your arms broken into armor?
- Bem's remembrance mournful rhapsody
Other quotes
[edit]- Poles are a great nation and a worthless society.
- Source: „Polityka”, 1 January 2006, page 92.
- Polishness is bitter bread...
- Source: letter to Józef Bogdan Zalewski on January 8, 1852.
