Morning #bookstr
Czeslaw Milosz’s nose reminds me of my grandfather’s nose. I love looking at his beautiful face.
Even though my grandfather only attended school up until about 6th grade, his insight, wisdom & affectionate demeanor blessed & guided my childhood. I was a lucky girl.
He would often coax me away from reading & daydreams to play board games with him on visits. 
Conversations with Czeslaw Milosz:
MILOSZ: Moscow doesn't have what Central Europe's looking for. It wants to look to the West, where it discovers a curious lack of any center, any single capital.
CZARNECKA: What about New York? Isn't that the new capital?
MILOSZ: English has ousted French, that's clear. But it's difficult to say to what degree New York has now become a center of the sort Paris once was. That strikes me as somewhat dubious. New York is not a metropolis in the way Paris was; America is a very decentralized country. And, as we know, New York is a very unique conglomeration. Paris was France, but New York is not a distillation of America.” 
#[2] tell me what you know about Czeslaw Milosz
@8eef5a3b: Czeslaw Milosz was a Polish poet, prose writer, and translator. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1980. His works often dealt with the themes of war, politics, and the human condition. Have you read any of his works?
