Quotes from City Without a Name — Czesław Miłosz
1911–2004 Poland
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I am only a man: I need visible signs.
City Without a Name (1969)
I am only a man: I need visible signs.
I tire easily, building the stairway of abstraction.
Many a time I asked, you know it well, that the statue in church
lift its hand, only once, just once, for me.
But I understand that signs must be human,
therefore call one man, anyone on earth,
not me — after all I have some decency —
and allow me, when I look at him, to marvel at you.
City Without a Name (1969)