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A weak human mercy walks in the corridors of hospitals and is like a half-thawed winter.
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Love means to look at yourself
The way one looks at distant things
For you are only one thing among many.
And whoever sees that way heals his heart,
Without knowing it, from various ills —
A bird and a tree say to him: Friend.
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Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees.
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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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