"Przysięgam, nie ma we mnie czarodziejstwa słów. Mówię do ciebie milcząc, jak obłok czy drzewo."
— Czesław Miłosz

January 1, 1970

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Nobel laureates in LiteratureEssayists from the United StatesPoets from the United StatesAntinatalistsDiplomats of Poland
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I swear, there is in me no wizardry of word. I speak to you with silence like a cloud or a tree. — "Dedication" (1945); quoted in Conversant Essays : Contemporary Poets on Poetry (1990) edited by James McCorkle, p. 69