Polish-American poet and Nobel laureate (1911–2004)
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He lived through the Nazi occupation of Warsaw, then worked for the communist government before defecting when they turned on him — and from exile wrote the poetry and prose that made him a Nobel laureate and the century's most unsparing witness to ideology's cost.
Czesław Miłosz was born in Poland on 30 June 1911 and spent the war years surviving the German occupation of Warsaw. After 1945 he became a cultural attaché for Poland's new communist government, but when the authorities began threatening his safety, he defected to France and then settled in the United States, teaching at Berkeley. His wartime poetry and The Captive Mind, a prose dissection of Stalinism, established him as a major émigré voice. The Swedish Academy awarded him the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1980, citing a writer who "voices man's exposed condition in a world of severe conflic…
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Evil grows and bears fruit, which is understandable, because it has logic and probability on its side and also, of course, strength.
When I die, I will see the lining of the world. The other side, beyond bird, mountain, sunset.
And if there is no lining to the world? If a thrush on a branch is not a sign, But just a thrush on the branch? If night and day Make no sense following each other?
It would be more decorous not to live. To live is not decorous, Says he who after many years Returned to the city of his youth.
Masculinity and femininity, elapsed, met in him And every shame, every grief, every love.
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