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Czesław Miłosz on Poetry

1911–2004 Poland

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Leave
To poets a moment of happiness,
Otherwise your world will perish.

Rescue (1945)

Every poet depends upon generations who wrote in his native tongue; he inherits styles and forms elaborated by those who lived before him. At the same time, though, he feels that those old means of expression are not adequate to his own experience.

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