<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=360107" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Preface</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">First, plain speech in the mother tongue.<br>Hearing it, you should be able to see<br>Apple trees, a river, the bend of a road,<br>As if in a flash of summer lightning.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And it should contain more than images.<br>It has been lured by singsong,<br>A daydream, melody. Defenseless,<br>It was bypassed by the sharp, dry world.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You often ask yourself why you feel shame<br>Whenever you look through a book of poetry.<br>As if the author, for reasons unclear to you,<br>Addressed the worse side of your nature,<br>Pushing aside thought, cheating thought.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Seasoned with jokes, clowning, satire,<br>Poetry still knows how to please.<br>Then its excellence is much admired.<br>But the grave combats where life is at stake<br>Are fought in prose. It was not always so.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And our regret has remained unconfessed.<br>Novels and essays serve but will not last.<br>One clear stanza can take more weight<br>Than a whole wagon of elaborate prose.</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=360107" data-title="Preface de Czeslaw Milosz" data-description="First, plain speech in the mother tongue. Hearing it, you should be able to see Apple trees, a river, the bend of a road, As if in a flash of summer lightning. And it should contain more than images. It has been lured by singsong, A daydream, mel..."></div> </div> </div>

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