The survivors ran through the fields, escaping From themsel… - Czesław Miłosz

" "
The survivors ran through the fields, escaping
From themselves, knowing they wouldn't return
For a hundred years. Before them were spread
Those quicksands where a tree changes into nothing,
Into an anti-tree, where no borderline
Separates a shape from a shape, and where,
Amid thunder, the golden house of is
Collapses, and the word becoming ascends.

Czesław Miłosz

English

Collect this quote

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.

Biography information from Wikiquote

Also Known As

Alternative Names: Miłosz • Czelaw Milosz

All quotes from Czesław Miłosz Similar Quotes by other Originators

Originators like Czesław Miłosz:

T. S. Eliot W. H. Auden J. M. Coetzee Ursula K. Le Guin Wisława Szymborska

Additional quotes by Czesław Miłosz

In a room where
people unanimously maintain
a conspiracy of silence,
one word of truth
sounds like a pistol shot.

I have no wisdom, no skills, and no faith but I received strength, it tears the world apart. I shall break, a heavy wave, against its shores and a young wave will cover my trace.

Poetry is an attempt to penetrate the dense reality to find a place where the simplest things look as new as through the eyes of a child.

The survivors ran through the fields, escaping From themselves, knowing they wouldn't return For a hundred years. Before them were spread Those quick… - Czesław Miłosz

About Czesław Miłosz

Also Known As

Go Premium

Additional quotes by Czesław Miłosz

Enhance Your Quote Experience