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More from Ceslaw Milosz

  1. Human material seems to have one major defect: it does not like to be considered merely as human material. It finds it hard to endure the feeling that it must …

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  2. He who invokes history is always secure. The dead will not rise to witness against him. You can accuse them of any deeds you like. Their reply will always be s…

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  3. Whoever saw, as many did, a whole city reduced to rubble - kilometers of streets on which there remained no trace of life, not even a cat, not even a homeless …

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