<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=360071" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Account</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The history of my stupidity would fill many volumes.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Some would be devoted to acting against consciousness,<br>Like the flight of a moth which, had it known,<br>Would have tended nevertheless toward the candle's flame.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Others would deal with ways to silence anxiety,<br>The little whisper which, though it is a warning, is ignored.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I would deal separately with satisfaction and pride,<br>The time when I was among their adherents<br>Who strut victoriously, unsuspecting.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But all of them would have one subject, desire,<br>If only my own -- but no, not at all; alas,<br>I was driven because I wanted to be like others.<br>I was afraid of what was wild and indecent in me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The history of my stupidity will not be written.<br>For one thing, it's late. And the truth is laborious.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Berkeley, 1980.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Trans. Robert Hass and Robert Pinsky</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Czeslaw+Milosz">Czeslaw Milosz</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=360071" data-title="Account de Czeslaw Milosz" data-description="The history of my stupidity would fill many volumes. Some would be devoted to acting against consciousness, Like the flight of a moth which, had it known, Would have tended nevertheless toward the candle's flame. Others would deal with ways to s..."></div> </div> </div>

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