How it should be in Heaven I know, for I was there. By its … - Czesław Miłosz

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How it should be in Heaven I know, for I was there. By its river. Listening to its birds. In its season: in summer, shortly after sunrise. I would get up and run to my thousand works And the garden was superterrestrial, owned by imagination.

Czesław Miłosz

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About Czesław Miłosz

Czesław Miłosz (30 June 1911 – 14 August 2004) was a Polish poet and essayist, awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1980.

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Alternative Names: Miłosz • Czelaw Milosz • Czeslaw Milosz

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