polskie, bo dobre

Polish, Catholic | ''I am a Pole – that word acquires a deeper meaning. I am one not only because I speak Polish, or because others speaking this language are spiritually closer to me and more understandable. I’m a Pole also because beside the sphere of private, individual life I likewise know the collective life of my nation. I am a Pole because as a part of the nation, besides my own personal business and interests, I also espouse national causes, the interests of Poland as a whole. Those are supreme values for which one must sacrifice all that one is not permitted to sacrifice for personal matters. I am a Pole – that means that I belong to the Polish nation throughout all of its territory and all of its existence in the past, the present, and the future. … I am a Pole – thus with all the breadth of my spirit I live the life of Poland, her feelings and thoughts, her needs, desires and aspirations. … I am a Pole – therefore I have Polish duties: and these all the greater, and my dedication to them is all the stronger, the more decent kind of human I represent". — Roman Dmowski

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Two Women on the Baltic Coast, Gdańsk, Poland, 1986 by Marek Zarzecki

[random-brushstrokes]

Edward Okuń (Polish, 1872-1945) - Golden Yarn

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Jacek Yerka (Polish, 1952) - Metropolis II (1989)

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St. John's Archcathedral in Warsaw, Poland

Polish vintage postcard

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How to survive Easter (and any invitation for dinner) in Poland

[lichozestudni]

Be careful with Polish red wasabi - ćwikła z chrzanem

[forest-woman]

Malbork Castle, Poland

[pol-ski]

Farewell by Piotr Stachiewicz (Polish, 1858-1938)

[livesunique]

Wilanów palace, Warsaw, Poland

[postcard-from-the-past]

100 years ago:

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Holy Cross Church in Warsaw, Poland

Polish vintage postcard, mailed to Argentina

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♡ | © Michał Ramus Fotografia, Holy Trinity Catholic Church, Kraków, Poland

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pączki

In Poland, pączki have been the snack of choice on Fat Thursday since the 17th century, and according to superstition, not eating one brings bad luck for a year. 🍩

[allthingseurope]

Torun, Poland (by Dominika Jakubiec)

[polandpics]

Polish Christmas | © Małgosia Hebel

[pol-ski]

Shepherdess of the White Bears by Zofia Plewińska-Smidowiczowa (Polish; 1888-1944), 1918

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Lucas Cranach the Younger - Barbara Radziwiłł, Queen of Poland (c. 1565).

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"Merry Christmas", Polish postcard with artwork by Zofia Plewińska-Smidowiczowa (Polish; 1888-1944), 1931

[fullcravings]

Homemade Pączki (Polish Doughnuts)