# Czesław Miłosz's best-known poems and quotes

"Campo di Fiori", "A Song on the End of the World", "You Who Wronged" and "My Faithful Mother Tongue": the most famous lines and sentences by Nobel laureate Czesław Miłosz, each with the poem or book it comes from.

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- Nov 21, 2021 · couchpotato_wroclaw
- https://even.best/en/l/5176/czes%C5%82aw-mi%C5%82osz-s-best-known-poems-and-quotes

## Top 16

1. **There will be no other end of the world, / there will be no other end of the world.** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Poem "A Song on the End of the World", Warszawa 1944.
2. **What is poetry which does not save / nations or people?** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Poem "Dedication", z tomu „Ocalenie”, 1945.
3. **I said so little. / Days were short.** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Poem "So Little".
4. **Memoir: the part of our life we can tell without blushing.** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Book "Native Realm", 1959.
5. **Handles, bottoms and jugs. / Nothing, sir, do I regret / as much as the porcelain.** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — Poem "Song on Porcelain".
6. **On this same square / they burned Giordano Bruno.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Poem "Campo di Fiori", Warszawa 1943.
7. **Do not feel safe. The poet remembers. / You can kill one, but another is born.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Poem "You Who Wronged", 1950.
8. **Faithful mother tongue, / I have been serving you.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Poem "My Faithful Mother Tongue", 1968.
9. **A day so happy. / Fog lifted early, I worked in the garden.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Poem "Gift", 1971.
10. **My Lord, I loved strawberry jam / and the dark sweetness of a woman's body.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Poem "Confession", z tomu „Kroniki”.
11. **Love means to learn to look at yourself / the way one looks at distant things.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Poem "Love", z cyklu „Świat (poema naiwne)”, 1943.
12. **If I had died young, I would have died in a dream (…) / hence the moral: one should not die too soon.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Poem "Moral".
13. **For one good stanza weighs more / than the burden of many laborious pages.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Poem "Treatise on Poetry", 1957.
14. **On a new Campo di Fiori / the poet's word will stir rebellion.** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — Poem "Campo di Fiori", Warszawa 1943.
15. **To know and not to speak: / that is how one forgets.** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — Poem "Reading the Japanese Poet Issa", 1982.
16. **No love should be stretched beyond its end.** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — Book "The Issa Valley", 1955.

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