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Czeslaw Milosz was a renowned Polish poet, essayist, and translator. Born on June 30, 1911, in Lithuania, he passed away on August 14, 2004. Milosz's poetry is celebrated for its deep exploration of human existence, history, and politics, reflecting the complex history of Poland and Eastern Europe. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1980 for his significant contributions to poetry and prose.

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Famous Czeslaw Milosz Quotes

“I think that I am here, on this earth, to present a report on it, but to whom I don't know. As if I were sent so that whatever takes place has meaning because it changes into memory.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Earth Memories Reports

Author:Czeslaw Milosz

“Poetry is a dividend from what you know and what you are.”

Knows Poetry Is Dividends

Author:Czeslaw Milosz

“Human reason is beautiful and invincible. No bars, no barbed wire, no pulping of books, No sentence of banishment can prevail against it. It puts what should be above things as they are. It does not know Jew from Greek nor slave from master.”

Knows Should Humans Doe Book Reason Beautiful Masters Slave Jew Sentences Bars Greek Wire Invincible Human Reason Barbed Wire Banishment

Author:Czeslaw Milosz

“You who think of us: they lived only in delusion... Know that we the People of the Book, will never die!”

People Thinking Knows Book Dies Delusion

Book:Selected and Last Poems 1931-2004

Source: Selected and Last Poems 1931-2004

“A day so happy. Fog lifted early. I worked in the garden. Hummingbirds were stopping over honeysuckle flowers. There was no thing on earth I wanted to possess. I know no one worth my envying him.”

Knows Wanted Earth Flower Gratitude Garden Appreciation Cheer Stopping Fog Thankfulness Cheerfulness Joyfulness Hummingbirds

Author:Czeslaw Milosz

“Do you know how it is when one wakes at night suddenly and asks, listening to the pounding heart: what more do you want, insatiable?”

Knows Want Heart Night Asks Know How Listening Do You Know Insatiable

Author:Czeslaw Milosz

“The child who dwells inside us trusts that there are wise men somewhere who know the truth.”

Knows Men Children Wise Argument

Author:Czeslaw Milosz

About the Author

Born: June 30, 1911
Died: August 14, 2004
Known for: Poet
Quotes: 90

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Selected and Last Poems 1931-2004Related source material

The Captive MindRelated source material

The Noble Traveller: The Life and Writings of O. V. de L. MiloszRelated source material

The Witness of PoetryRelated source material

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