Comments on: A Poem by Czeslaw Milosz

By: Reading Czesław Miłosz in Bangladesh | Alone in Babel: On Books and the Publication Industry

Sat, 10 Mar 2012 07:42:10 +0000

[...] only to those rather unfairly maligned ‘sophomore girls’. Miłosz writes in another poem (‘A Confession’) of literature as ‘a tournament of hunchbacks’, the preserve of ‘smaller men, like [...]

By: Lawn care Murfreesboro

Lawn care Murfreesboro — Sun, 12 Jun 2011 16:09:38 +0000

I love that first one. The one entitled “A Confession (1985)”; Simply because, I also love strawberry jam.

By: muffins

muffins — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:25:00 +0000

This poem sounds fantastic! Could you please tell me where can I learn more about the author?

By: Flueless

Flueless — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 14:37:33 +0000

Milosz was definitely a poet who spanned his century. Born in a Lithuanian-Polish province of tsarist Russia, Czeslaw Milosz died having seen the Nazi and Soviet totalitarian empires rise and fall, while his two native lands finally escaped their miserable history to end up safe and free. He wrote about it all, mostly in exile in America, in essays, novels and volumes of poems.

By: OutperformingYourself

OutperformingYourself — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 17:54:08 +0000

Great Poem. I’m personally a big fan of poems. This is the first time i found a poem by Czeslaw Milosz. So i’m really looking forward to see some more Poems of Czeslaw Milosz! Thank you john for posting this! This is indeed a Superb poem! I loved it!

By: Gas Fires Liverpool

Gas Fires Liverpool — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 17:55:23 +0000

For me, more than his poetry, his book The Captive Mind is considered one of the finest studies of the condition of intellectuals, he said that the intellectuals who became dissidents were not necessarily the ones with the strongest minds, but those with the weakest stomachs. The mind can rationalize anything, he said, but the stomach can only take so much. A very inspiring book! I recommend you read it!

By: Pearl Earrings

Pearl Earrings — Thu, 21 May 2009 19:28:44 +0000

I would say it is nice, but I read other poems by Czeslaw, and trust me if you are into poems – you need to read his other works. Some are very deep.

By: William Catling

William Catling — Tue, 05 May 2009 14:56:26 +0000

Wow definitely my favorite author/poet of all time. Glad to know other people are still aware of his works. His book The Captive Mind is said to be still used as reference material by different governments to better understand communist culture… his works will live on forever, great post jb.

Will