If only the stars contained me. If only everything kept hap… - Czesław Miłosz

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If only the stars contained me.
If only everything kept happening in such a way
That the so-called world opposed the so-called flesh.

Czesław Miłosz

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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

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At every sunrise I renounce the doubts of night and greet the new day of a most precious delusion.

[He] Attacks the past, but fears that, having destroyed it,
He will have nothing on which to lay his head.

The work of human thought should withstand the test of brutal, naked reality. If it cannot, it is worthless. Probably only those things are worthwhile which can preserve their validity in the eyes of a man threatened with instant death.

If only the stars contained me. If only everything kept happening in such a way That the so-called world opposed the so-called flesh. - Czesław Miłosz

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