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               Czeslaw Milosz (1911-2004)

MEANING

First Line:   —When I die, I will see the lining of the world.

Published in Dalsze okolice in 1991, Meaning is protected by copyright and cannot be displayed without permission of the copyright holder. It can be found in:

  • Milosz, Czeslow. New and Collected Poems: 1931-2001 New York: Harper Collins, 2001.

    Milosz "who with uncompromising clear-sightedness voices man's exposed condition in a world of severe conflicts" was awarded the 1980 Nobel Prize in Literature.