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Quotes from An Appeal — Czesław Miłosz

1911–2004 Poland

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The feeling of a prisoner who touches a wall
And knows that beyond it valleys spread,
Oaks stand in summer splendor, a jay flies
And a kingfisher changes a river to a marvel.

An Appeal (1954)

And space, what it is like? Is it mechanical,
Newtonian? A frozen prison?
Or the lofty space of Einstein, the relation
Between movement and movement? No reason to pretend
I know. I don't know, and if I did,
Still my imagination is a thousand years old.

An Appeal (1954)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Czesław Miłosz (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.