Czesław Miłosz's best-known poems and quotes
The top 3 according to 10 votes from people: There will be no other end of the world, / there will be no other end of the world. · What is poetry which does not save / nations or people? · I said so little. / Days were short.. (Updated Nov 21, 2021.)
"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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Top 16
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There will be no other end of the world, / there will be no other end of the world.
Poem "A Song on the End of the World", Warszawa 1944.
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2
What is poetry which does not save / nations or people?
Poem "Dedication", z tomu „Ocalenie”, 1945.
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3
I said so little. / Days were short.
Poem "So Little".
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4
Memoir: the part of our life we can tell without blushing.
Book "Native Realm", 1959.
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5
Handles, bottoms and jugs. / Nothing, sir, do I regret / as much as the porcelain.
Poem "Song on Porcelain".
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6
On this same square / they burned Giordano Bruno.
Poem "Campo di Fiori", Warszawa 1943.
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Do not feel safe. The poet remembers. / You can kill one, but another is born.
Poem "You Who Wronged", 1950.
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Faithful mother tongue, / I have been serving you.
Poem "My Faithful Mother Tongue", 1968.
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9
A day so happy. / Fog lifted early, I worked in the garden.
Poem "Gift", 1971.
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10
My Lord, I loved strawberry jam / and the dark sweetness of a woman's body.
Poem "Confession", z tomu „Kroniki”.
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11
Love means to learn to look at yourself / the way one looks at distant things.
Poem "Love", z cyklu „Świat (poema naiwne)”, 1943.
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12
If I had died young, I would have died in a dream (…) / hence the moral: one should not die too soon.
Poem "Moral".
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13
For one good stanza weighs more / than the burden of many laborious pages.
Poem "Treatise on Poetry", 1957.
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14
On a new Campo di Fiori / the poet's word will stir rebellion.
Poem "Campo di Fiori", Warszawa 1943.
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15
To know and not to speak: / that is how one forgets.
Poem "Reading the Japanese Poet Issa", 1982.
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16
No love should be stretched beyond its end.
Book "The Issa Valley", 1955.
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