<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=360084" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Dedication</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">You whom I could not save<br>Listen to me.<br>Try to understand this simple speech as I would be ashamed of another.<br>I swear, there is in me no wizardry of words.<br>I speak to you with silence like a cloud or a tree.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">What strengthened me, for you was lethal.<br>You mixed up farewell to an epoch with the beginning of a new one,<br>Inspiration of hatred with lyrical beauty,<br>Blind force with accomplished shape.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Here is the valley of shallow Polish rivers. And an immense bridge<br>Going into white fog. Here is a broken city,<br>And the wind throws the screams of gulls on your grave<br>When I am talking with you.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">What is poetry which does not save<br>Nations or people?<br>A connivance with official lies,<br>A song of drunkards whose throats will be cut in a moment,<br>Readings for sophomore girls.<br>That I wanted good poetry without knowing it,<br>That I discovered, late, its salutary aim,<br>In this and only this I find salvation.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They used to pour millet on graves or poppy seeds<br>To feed the dead who would come disguised as birds.<br>I put this book here for you, who once lived<br>So that you should visit us no more.</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=360084" data-title="Dedication de Czeslaw Milosz" data-description="You whom I could not save Listen to me. Try to understand this simple speech as I would be ashamed of another. I swear, there is in me no wizardry of words. I speak to you with silence like a cloud or a tree. What strengthened me, for you was let..."></div> </div> </div>

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