We and the flowers throw shadows on the earth. What has no … - Czesław Miłosz

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We and the flowers throw shadows on the earth.
What has no shadow has no strength to live

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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Earth, what have I to do with thee? With your meadows where dumb beasts Grazed before the deluge without lifting their heads? What have I to do with your implacable births? So why this gracious melancholia? Is it because anger is no use?

For to exist on the earth is beyond any power to name.

The true enemy of man is generalization.

We and the flowers throw shadows on the earth. What has no shadow has no strength to live - Czesław Miłosz

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