Miłosz. Biografia Quotes

“All of us, in our flesh and in the affairs of daily life, are subject to the devil and are guests in a world in which he is a master and a god. That is why the bread we eat, the clothes we wear, even the air, everything by which we live is under his power. Martin Luther, Commentary on Galatians 3, used as the epigraph to ‘Gardener’, NCP 731”
― Andrzej Franaszek, Milosz: A Biography

“Doctor Catchfly The lament of a slaughtered hare fills the forest. It fills the forest and disturbs nothing there. For the dying of a particular being is its own private business And everyone has to cope with it in whatever way he can … If the wax in our ears could melt, a moth on pine needles, A beetle half-eaten by a bird, a wounded lizard Would all lie at the center of the expanding circles Of their vibrating agony. ‘Diary of a Naturalist’, NCP 285”
― Andrzej Franaszek, Milosz: A Biography