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As with proverbs of other peoples around the world, Polish proverbs concern many topics; [5] at least 2,000 Polish proverbs relate to weather and climate alone. [1] Many concern classic topics such as fortune and misfortune, religion, family, everyday life, health, love, wealth, and women; others, like the first recorded Polish proverb (referring to bast production), and those about weather ...
Dziady (Polish pronunciation:, Forefathers' Eve) is a poetic drama by the Polish poet Adam Mickiewicz. It is considered one of the greatest works of both Polish and European Romanticism . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] To George Sand and Georg Brandes , Dziady was a supreme realization of Romantic drama theory, to be ranked with such works as Goethe 's ...
Writing in a Polish newspaper in 2000, he claimed, "I was born in the very center of Lithuania and so have a greater right than my great forebear, Mickiewicz, to write 'O Lithuania, my country.'" [133] But in his Nobel lecture, he said, "My family in the 16th century already spoke Polish, just as many families in Finland spoke Swedish and in ...
Famous people quotes about life. 46. “There is only one certainty in life and that is that nothing is certain.” —G.K. Chesterton (June 1926) 47. “Make it a rule of life never to regret and ...
75 Best Stoic Quotes "You have power over your mind—not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.” - Marcus Aurelius “Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”
75 Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes. 1. "To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering." 2. "We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving ...
Count Napoleon Stanisław Adam Feliks Zygmunt Krasiński (Polish: [ˈzɨɡmunt kraˈɕij̃skʲi]; 19 February 1812 – 23 February 1859) was a Polish poet traditionally ranked after Adam Mickiewicz and Juliusz Słowacki as one of Poland's Three Bards – the Romantic poets who influenced national consciousness in the period of Partitions of Poland.
Zaosie manor, possible birthplace Church of the Transfiguration of Jesus, in Navahrudak, where Mickiewicz was baptized. Adam Mickiewicz was born on 24 December 1798, either at his paternal uncle's estate in Zaosie (now Zavosse) near Navahrudak (in Polish, Nowogródek) or in Navahrudak itself [b] in what was then part of the Russian Empire and is now Belarus.