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Czeslaw Milosz [1911-2004] Polish

Rank: 104
Poet (with poems)

Haiku, Naive

Czesław Miłosz was a Polish poet, prose writer, translator and diplomat. His World War II-era sequence The World is a collection of twenty "naïve" poems.

Poetry

Quote	Tags	Rank
What is poetry which does not save nations or people?	Poetry	101
Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth. Do not follow those who lie in contempt of reality. Let your lie be even more logical than the truth itself, so the weary travelers may find repose.		102
At the entrance, my bare feet on the dirt floor, Here, gusts of heat; at my back, white clouds. I stare and stare. It seems I was called for this: To glorify things just because they are.		103
The voice of passion is better than the voice of reason. The passionless cannot change history.		104
It is impossible to communicate to people who have not experienced it the undefinable menace of total rationalism.		105
Human material seems to have one major defect: it does not like to be considered merely as human material. It finds it hard to endure the feeling that it must resign itself to passive acceptance of changes introduced from above.		106

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