Selected Poems Selected Poems
A Poland, European Literature, Classics book. Yet falling in love is not the same as being able...
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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. Czesaw Miosz, Selected Poems Selected Poems // Yet falling in love is not the same as being able to love. Czesaw Miosz, Selected Poems Selected Poems //
I've read at least one work by every Nobel Literature Laureate, and, with the exception of St. John Perse, I can think of no poet less deserving of that award than Milosz. This is less a review than it is a warning beacon attempting to dissuade you from crashing on the rocks. From a poem "On Angels": I have heard that voice many a time when asleep and, what is strange, I understood more or less an order or an appeal in an unearthly tongue: day draws near another one do what you can. Another poem "Gift": A day so happy. Fog lifted early, I worked in the garden. Hummingbirds were stopping over honeysuckle... In 'Ars Poetica?' Milosz eloquently states 'The purpose of poetry is to remind us how difficult it is to remain just one person, for our house is open, there are no keys in the doors, and invisible guests come in and out at will'. I think his poetry does more than see us compromised by these exchanges. His confessions are whimsical,...
