Czeslaw Milosz Quotes about Art

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Poetry is news brought to the mountains by a unicorn and an echo.

Poetry is news brought to the mountains by a unicorn and an echo.

Art, Echoes, Poetry

It isn't pleasant to surrender to the hegemony of a nation which is still wild and primitive, and to concede the absolute superiority of its customs and institutions, science and technology, literature and art. Must one sacrifice so much in the name of the unity of mankind?

Czeslaw Milosz

Art, Sacrifice, Technology

"The Captive Mind" by Czeslaw Milosz, as translated by Jane Zielonko, 1990.

It's true that what is morbid is highly valued today, and so you may think that I am only joking or that I've devised just one more means of praising Art with the help of irony.

Czeslaw Milosz

Art, Mean, Thinking

Czeslaw Milosz (2017). “Selected and Last Poems 1931-2004”, p.126, Penguin UK

Czeslaw Milosz Quotes about Art

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