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Love means to learn to look at
The way one looks at distant
For you are only one thing among many.
And whoever sees that way heals his heart,
Without knowing it, from various ills—A bird and a tree say to him:
Friend.
Then he wants to use himself and
So that they stand in the glow of ripeness.
It doesn’t matter whether he knows what he serves:
Who serves best doesn’t always understand.
Czeslaw Milosz
Czesław Miłosz (30 June 1911 – 14 August 2004) was a Polish-American poet, prose writer, translator, and diplomat. Regarded as one of the great
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A Poem For the End of the Century
When everything was And the notion of sin had And the earth was In universal
Encounter
We were riding through frozen fields in a wagon at dawn A red wing rose in the darkness And suddenly a hare ran across the road One of us pointed to it with his hand
Dedication
You whom I could not Listen to me Try to understand this simple speech as I would be ashamed of another I swear, there is in me no wizardry of words
What Does It Mean
It does not know it It does not know it It does not know it is this not that And, more and more often, agape,