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Secular or Eclectic
Christian : Catholic
20th Century

About Czeslaw Milosz

Timeline (1911 - 2004)

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English version by
Robert Hass

Original Language
Polish

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Themes
  Birds
  Bliss
  Bower
  Smile
  Snow

 

Recommended Books

Against Forgetting: Twentieth-Century Poetry of Witness, Edited by Carolyn Forche
Bells in Winter, by Czeslaw Milosz / Translated by Lillian Vallee
A Book of Luminous Things: An International Anthology of Poetry, Edited by Czeslaw Milosz
The Collected Poems, by Czeslaw Milosz
The Land of Ulro, by Czeslaw Milosz

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A valley and above it forests in autumn colors.
A voyager arrives, a map leads him there.
Or perhaps memory. Once long ago in the sun,
When snow first fell, riding this way
He felt joy, strong, without reason,
Joy of the eyes. Everything was the rhythm
Of shifting trees, of a bird in flight,
Of a train on the viaduct, a feast in motion.
He returns years later, has no demands.
He wants only one, most precious thing:
To see, purely and simply, without name,
Without expectations, fears, or hopes,
At the edge where there is no I or not-I.

 

 

-- from The Collected Poems, by Czeslaw Milosz

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