There was a time when only wise books were read
helping us to bear our pain and misery.
This, after all, is not quite the same
as leafing through a thousand works fresh from psychiatric clinics. And yet the world is different from what it seems to be
and we are other than how we see ourselves in our ravings.


"Ars Poetica?"

Czesław Miłosz Quotes

There was a time when only wise books were read helping us to bear our pain and misery. This, after all, is not quite the same as leafing through a...

There was a time when only wise books were read helping us to bear our pain and misery. This, after all, is not quite the same as leafing through a...

There was a time when only wise books were read helping us to bear our pain and misery. This, after all, is not quite the same as leafing through a...

There was a time when only wise books were read helping us to bear our pain and misery. This, after all, is not quite the same as leafing through a...