Czeslaw Milosz

“The purpose of poetry is to remind us”

“I have defined poetry as a 'passionate pursuit of the Real.”

“In the very essence of poetry there is something indecent; A thing brought forth that we didn't know we had in us, So we blink our eyes, as if a tiger had sprung out And stood in the light, licking its tail.”

“It is sweet to think I was a companion in an expedition that never ends”