Adam Mickiewicz: Likeness

Adam Mickiewicz was Polish national poet, dramatist, essayist, publicist, translator, professor of Slavic literature, and political activist. Explore interesting quotes on likeness.

Adam Mickiewicz: 22 quotes1 like

“Herod, God! - all young Poland 's given into Herod's hands. What do I see? Long white roads like stations of the cross, long roads unseen through ancient forests, through the snow, all roads leading North. There, there, to the far country, they float like rivers.”

Adam Mickiewicz book Dziady

Herod - Panie cała Polska młoda wydana w ręce Heroda. Co widzę? Długie białe dróg krzyżowych biegi, Drogi długie - nie dojrzeć - przez puszcze - przez śniegi, Wszystkie na północ! Tam, tam, w kraj daleki, płyną jak rzeki <br class="br">Part three, scene 5. <br class="br">Dziady (Forefathers' Eve) http://www.ap.krakow.pl/nkja/literature/polpoet/mic_fore.htm

“In spring's own country, where the gardens blow,
You faded, tender rose! For hours now past,
Like butterflies departing, on you're cast
The worms of memories to work you woe.”

Adam Mickiewicz

"The Grave of the Countess Potocki" http://daisy.htmlplanet.com/amick.htm <br class="br">Crimean Sonnets

“Monsters merge and welter through the water's mounting
Din. All hands, stand fast! A sailor sprints aloft,
Hangs, swelling spider-like, among invisible nets,
Surveys his slowly undulating snares, and waits.”

Adam Mickiewicz

"The Crossing" http://www.ap.krakow.pl/nkja/literature/polpoet/mic_crim.htm. <br class="br">Crimean Sonnets