Czeslaw Milosz Quotes

A Man Is Lying Under Machine-gun Fire On A Street In An Embattled City. He Looks At The Pavement And Sees A Very Amusing Sight: The Cobblestones Are Standing Upright Like The Quills Of A Porcupine. The Bullets Hitting Against Their Edges Displace And Tilt Them. Such Moments In The Consciousness Of A Man Judge All Poets And Philosophers. Let Us Suppose, Too, That A Certain Poet Was The Hero Of The Literary Cafes, And Wherever He Went Was Regarded With Curiosity And Awe. Yet His Poems, Recalled In Such A Moment, Suddenly Seem Diseased And Highbrow. The Vision Of The Cobblestones Is Unquestionably Real, And Poetry Based On An Equally Naked Experience Could Survive Triumphantly That Judgment Day Of Man's Illusions.

Czeslaw Milosz Quotes: A Man Is Lying Under Machine-gun Fire On A Street In An Embattled City. He Looks At The Pavement And

Czeslaw Milosz Quotes: A Man Is Lying Under Machine-gun Fire On A Street In An Embattled City. He Looks At The Pavement And

Czeslaw Milosz Quotes: A Man Is Lying Under Machine-gun Fire On A Street In An Embattled City. He Looks At The Pavement And

Czeslaw Milosz Quotes: A Man Is Lying Under Machine-gun Fire On A Street In An Embattled City. He Looks At The Pavement And

Czeslaw Milosz Quotes: A Man Is Lying Under Machine-gun Fire On A Street In An Embattled City. He Looks At The Pavement And

Czeslaw Milosz Quotes: A Man Is Lying Under Machine-gun Fire On A Street In An Embattled City. He Looks At The Pavement And

Czeslaw Milosz Quotes: A Man Is Lying Under Machine-gun Fire On A Street In An Embattled City. He Looks At The Pavement And

Czeslaw Milosz Quotes: A Man Is Lying Under Machine-gun Fire On A Street In An Embattled City. He Looks At The Pavement And

Czeslaw Milosz Quotes: A Man Is Lying Under Machine-gun Fire On A Street In An Embattled City. He Looks At The Pavement And

Czeslaw Milosz Quotes: A Man Is Lying Under Machine-gun Fire On A Street In An Embattled City. He Looks At The Pavement And

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