— Most distinguished voyager, what was your eon like? — Comic. Terror is forgotten. Only the ridiculous is remembered by posterity. Death from a woun… - Czesław Miłosz

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— Most distinguished voyager, what was your eon like? — Comic. Terror is forgotten.
Only the ridiculous is remembered by posterity.
Death from a wound, from a noose, from starvation
Is one death, but folly is uncounted and new every year.

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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
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What has no shadow has no strength to live.

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

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Masculinity and femininity, elapsed, met in him And every shame, every grief, every love. If ever we accede to enlightenment, He thought, it is in one compassionate moment When what separated them from me vanishes And a shower of drops from a bunch of lilacs Pours on my face, and hers, and his, at the same time.

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