<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=360077" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>At a Certain Age</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">We wanted to confess our sins but there were no takers.<br>White clouds refused to accept them, and the wind<br>Was too busy visiting sea after sea.<br>We did not succeed in interesting the animals.<br>Dogs, disappointed, expected an order,<br>A cat, as always immoral, was falling asleep.<br>A person seemingly very close<br>Did not care to hear of things long past.<br>Conversations with friends over vodka or coffee<br>Ought not be prolonged beyond the first sign of boredom.<br>It would be humiliating to pay by the hour<br>A man with a diploma, just for listening.<br>Churches. Perhaps churches. But to confess there what?<br>That we used to see ourselves as handsome and noble<br>Yet later in our place an ugly toad<br>Half-opens its thick eyelid<br>And one sees clearly: &quot;That's me.&quot;</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=360077" data-title="At a Certain Age de Czeslaw Milosz" data-description="We wanted to confess our sins but there were no takers. White clouds refused to accept them, and the wind Was too busy visiting sea after sea. We did not succeed in interesting the animals. Dogs, disappointed, expected an order, A cat, as always i..."></div> </div> </div>

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