“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

"Ars Poetica?"

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Polish, poet, diplomat, prosaist, writer, and translator 1911–2004

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