Quote of the day
It is unjust and absurd of those advancing in years, to expect of the young that confidence should come all and only on their side: the human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return.
Czesław Miłosz

Born: June 30, 1911
Died: August 14, 2004 (aged 93)
Bio: Czesław Miłosz was a Polish poet, prose writer, translator and diplomat. His World War II-era sequence, The World, is a collection of twenty "naïve" poems. Following the war, he served as Polish cultural attaché in Paris and Washington, D.C.
Known for:
- The Issa Valley (1955)
- New and collected poems 1931-2001 (2001)
- Native Realm (1959)
- Nieobjęta ziemia (1984)
- Road-side dog (1997)
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