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Born in June 30, 1911 / Died in August 14, 2004 / Poland / Polish

Poems by Czeslaw Milosz

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Dedication

... Try to understand this simple speech as I would be ashamed of another ...

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Account

... The little whisper which, thought it is a warning, is ignored ...

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Love

... It doesn’t matter whether he knows what he serves: ...

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At a Certain Age

... Ought not be prolonged beyond the first sign of boredom ...

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Conversation with Jeanne

... You are right, Jeanne, I don't know how to care about the salvation of my soul ...

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It Was Winter

... As it happened, they spent winter in the snow of a mountain pass, ...

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Lake

... Stay as you were once, overgrown with rushes, ...

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Late Ripeness

... We forget - I kept saying - that we are all children of the King ...

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In Black Despair

... So here's the question - who can answer it - ...

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A Task

... Under so stiff a penalty that whoever dared to pronounce one ...

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Artificer

... He cuts the glowing, yellow buildings in two, breaks the walls into motley halves ...

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Window

... And when I looked out at dawn once again, an apple tree laden with ...

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Veni Creator

...   Many a time I asked, you know it well, that the statue in church  ...

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City Without a Name

... —In silence that stretched to the solid rock of yellow and red mountains&mdash ...

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Incantation

... The news was brought to the mountains by a unicorn and an echo ...