Czeslaw Milosz - Yet falling in love is not the same as being able

Yet falling in love is not the same as being able to love.

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Milosz, Czeslaw. Road-side Dog, translated by Czeslaw Milosz and Robert Hass, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998, p. 43.

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About the Author

Czeslaw Milosz

Born: June 30, 1911
Died: August 14, 2004
Nationality: American, Polish
Profession: Statesman; Poet, Writer & Diplomat

Biography

Czesław Miłosz was a Polish-American poet, prose writer, translator, and diplomat. Regarded as one of the great poets of the 20th century, he won the 1980 Nobel Prize in Literature. In its citation, the Swedish Academy called Miłosz a writer who "voices man's exposed condition in a world of severe conflicts".

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