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“Come tutte le biblioteche, era chiusa al pubblica e sottoposta all’amministrazione centrale tedesca, ma conservava il vecchio personale, il quale, pur avendo stipendi da fame, rimaneva al proprio posto per un patriottismo aziendale – i bibliotecari d’altronde costituiscono una razza speciale, capace di nutrirsi del solo amore per i propri libri.”

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Native Realm: A Search for Self-Definition

“No, non imiterò mai coloro che cancellano le proprie tracce, ripudiano il proprio passato e sono morti, anche se con equilibrismi intellettuali fanno finta di essere vivi. Le mie radici sono laggiù, all’Est, su questo non v’è alcun dubbio. Anche se trovo difficile e spiacevole spiegare chi sono, bisogna pur tentare di farlo.”

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Native Realm: A Search for Self-Definition

“È difficile comprendere da dove provenga quest'orgoglio dei poeti, se sovente si vergognano che appaia la loro debolezza.”

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“Sono gli impiegati che inventano, in fin dei conti, tutte queste scartoffie [i passaporti] per avvelenare la vita agli uomini, e le loro disposizioni non vanno prese troppo sul serio.”

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Native Realm: A Search for Self-Definition

“Oggi penso talvolta che il vicino dell’Elefante poteva essere il futuro ufficiale della Gestapo che lo avrebbe torturato durante gli interrogatori. L’Elefante non era fatto per stare in prigione perché membro di una qualche organizzazione clandestina, non era fatto per sopportare la slogatura delle articolazioni e gli schiaffi né poi, con le gambe rotte dopo un tentativo di fuga nel suicidio, per capire con sollievo, in un resto di consapevolezza, che il suo povero corpo stava morendo. Ma il gioviale Elefante era nato per vivere in armonia e pace, tra gli scherzi bonari e le chiacchierate con gli amici davanti a un bicchiere di vino. Era liberale, scettico e restio alle tentazioni dell’eroismo. A mio parere, la sua morte e quella dei suoi simili grava suinostri coetanei assai di più della morte di molti giovani fanatici.”

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Native Realm: A Search for Self-Definition

“[…] perché esistono dei mostri che nessuno può vincere in un combattimento faccia a faccia.”

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Native Realm: A Search for Self-Definition

“[…] alla fin fine, bisogna saper apprezzare i vantaggi che si traggono dalle proprie origini.”

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Native Realm: A Search for Self-Definition

Czeslaw Milosz: Frasi in inglese

“A man should not love the moon.
An ax should not lose weight in his hand.
His garden should smell of rotting apples
And grow a fair amount of nettles.”

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"Should, Should Not" (1961), trans. Czesŀaw Miŀosz
King Popeil and Other Poems (1962)

“If I am all mankind, are they themselves without me?”

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"Study of Loneliness" (1975), trans. Czesław Miłosz and Lillian Vallee
Hymn of the Pearl (1981)

“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.”

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"On Angels"

“We go down with the bells ringing in all the sunken cities.
Forgotten, we are greeted by the embassies of the dead,
While your endless flowing carries us on and on;
And neither is nor was. The moment only, eternal.”

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"Rivers" (1980), trans. Renata Gorczynski and Robert Hass
Hymn of the Pearl (1981)

“On the day the world ends
A bee circles a clover,
A fisherman mends a glimmering net.”

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"A Song On the End of the World" http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/19195

“All my life to pretend this world of theirs is mine
And to know such pretending is disgraceful.
But what can I do? Suppose I suddenly screamed
And started to prophesy. No one would hear me.
Their screens and microphones are not for that.”

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"Not Mine"

“Our memory is childish and it saves only what we need.”

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"Yellow Bicycle," trans. Czesław Miłosz and Robert Hass
Unattainable Earth (1986)

“During the thirty years I have spent abroad I have felt I was more privileged than my Western colleagues, whether writers or teachers of literature, for events both recent and long past took in my mind a sharply delineated, precise form. Western audiences confronted with poems or novels written in Poland, Czechoslovakia or Hungary, or with films produced there, possibly intuit a similarly sharpened consciousness, in a constant struggle against limitations imposed by censorship. Memory thus is our force, it protects us against a speech entwining upon itself like the ivy when it does not find a support on a tree or a wall.”

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Nobel lecture (8 December 1980)

“Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth.
Do not follow those who lie in contempt of reality.Let your lie be even more logical than the truth itself,
So the weary travelers may find repose in the lie.”

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"Child of Europe" (1946), trans. Jan Darowski
Daylight (1953)

“From life, from the apple cut by the flaming knife,
what grain will be saved?My son, believe me, nothing remains,
Only adult toil,
the furrow of fate in the palm.
Only toil,
Nothing more.”

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"Farewell" (1945)
Rescue (1945)

“A weak human mercy walks in the corridors of hospitals and is like a half-thawed winter.”

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"Before Majesty" (1978), trans. Czesław Miłosz and Robert Hass
Hymn of the Pearl (1981)

“Greece had to lose, her pure consciousness
had to make our agony only more acute.We needed God loving us in our weakness
and not in the glory of beatitude.”

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"To Raja Rao" (1969) (A poem written in English)
Uncollected Poems (1954-1969)

“It isn't pleasant to surrender to the hegemony of a nation which is still wild and primitive, and to concede the absolute superiority of its customs and institutions, science and technology, literature and art. Must one sacrifice so much in the name of the unity of mankind?”

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Czeslaw Milosz libro The Captive Mind

"The Pill of Murti-Bing" (1951), trans. Jane Zielonko
The Captive Mind (1953)

“They used to pour millet on graves or poppy seeds
To feed the dead who would come disguised as birds.
I put this book here for you, who once lived
So that you should visit us no more.”

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"Dedication" (1945), trans. Czesŀaw Miŀosz
Rescue (1945)

“When I curse Fate, it's not me, but the earth in me.”

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"Notes" (1978), trans. Czesław Miłosz and Lillian Vallee
Hymn of the Pearl (1981)

“The death of a man is like the fall of a mighty nation
That had valiant armies, captains, and prophets,
And wealthy ports and ships all over the seas.”

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"The Fall" (1975), trans. Czesław Miłosz and Lillian Vallee
Hymn of the Pearl (1981)

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