Not Mine (Czeslaw Milosz Poems)
All my life to pretend this world of theirs is mine And to know such pretending is disgraceful. But what ...
All my life to pretend this world of theirs is mine And to know such pretending is disgraceful. But what ...
You whom I could not save Listen to me. Try to understand this simple speech as I would be ashamed ...
The history of my stupidity would fill many volumes. Some would be devoted to acting against consciousness, Like the flight ...
"There where that ray touches the plain And the shadows escape as if they really ran, Warsaw stands, open from ...
It does not know it glitters It does not know it flies It does not know it is this not ...
In fear and trembling, I think I would fulfill my life Only if I brought myself to make a public ...
I looked out the window at dawn and saw a young apple tree translucent in brightness. And when I looked ...
I have always aspired to a more spacious form that would be free from the claims of poetry or prose ...
Your hand, my wonder, is now icy cold. The purest light of the celestial dome has burned me through. And ...
In Rome on the Campo di Fiori Baskets of olives and lemons, Cobbles spattered with wine And the wreckage of ...
It is true, our tribe is similar to the bees, It gathers honey of wisdom, carries it, stores it in ...
When I die, I will see the lining of the world. The other side, beyond bird, mountain, sunset. The true ...
We were riding through frozen fields in a wagon at dawn. A red wing rose in the darkness. And suddenly ...
Human reason is beautiful and invincible. No bars, no barbed wire, no pulping of books, No sentence of banishment can ...
Let us not talk philosophy, drop it, Jeanne. So many words, so much paper, who can stand it. I told ...
1 We, whose lungs fill with the sweetness of day. Who in May admire trees flowering Are better than those ...
And yet the books will be there on the shelves, separate beings, That appeared once, still wet As shining chestnuts ...
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