"He doesn't know birds live In another time than man. He doesn't know a tree lives In another time than birds And will grow slowly Upward in a gray column Thinking with its roots Of the silver of underworld kingdoms."
Czesław Miłosz

January 1, 1970

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"Birth" (1947), trans. Peter Dale Scott

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