Earth, what have I to do with thee? With your meadows where… - Czesław Miłosz

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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?

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 • Czeslaw Milosz

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