Author: Zbigniew Herbert
Cited by
- Githa Hariharan (1)
- IN: In Times of Siege (2003) Fiction, NULL
EPIGRAPH: and if the City falls but a single man escapes
he will carry the City within himself on the roads of exile
he will be the City
FROM: Report from the Besieged City, (1983), NULL, Poland
- Joakim Zander (1)
- IN: The Believer (2015) Fiction, NULL
EPIGRAPH: I paid for my betrayal
but then I didn't know
you were gone forever
and that i would be
dark
FROM: Elegy for the Departure of Pen Ink and Lamp, (1990), Poem, Poland
- Koren Zailckas (1)
- IN: Mother, Mother (2013) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: through fog, it is impossible to perceive
fiery eyes
greedy claws
jaws
through fog
one sees only the shimmering of nothingness...
were it not for its suffocating weight
and the death it sends down
one would think
it is the hallucination
of a sick imagination
but it exists
for certain it exists
FROM: The Monster of Mr. Cogito, (1992), Poem, Poland
- Amanda Hodgkinson (1)
- IN: 22 Britannia Road (2011) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: The dead have need of fairytales too.
FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Poland
- Don DeLillo (1)
- IN: Comopolis (2003) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: A rat became the unit of currency
FROM: Report from the Besieged City, (1983), Poem, Poland
- Don Delillo (1)
- IN: Cosmopolis (2003) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: a rat became the unit of currency
FROM: Report from the Besieged City, (1983), Poem, Poland
- Ryszard Krynicki (2)
- IN: Our Life Grows (1978) Fiction, NULL
EPIGRAPH: You survived not so that you might live
you have little time you must give testimony
FROM: "The Envoy of Mr. Cogito", (1973), Poem, Poland