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Cyprian Norwid Quotes

1821–1883 Poland

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.

Poland
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Also known as: Cyprian Kamil Norwid

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Hell is merely the impossibility of love.

Poles are a great nation and a worthless society.

The stones groaned silently. The ideal has hit the pavement.

Why, shadow, are you driving away with your arms broken into armor?

What have you done to Athens, Socrates?

I want the Czarnolas thing!

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...

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…

And I played... And I feel even sadder.

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Cyprian Norwid (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.