“Love means to look at yourself
The way one looks at distant things
For you are only one thing among many.”

— Czeslaw Milosz

"The World": Love (1943), trans. Czesŀaw Miŀosz
Rescue (1945)
Context: Love means to look at yourself
The way one looks at distant things
For you are only one thing among many.
And whoever sees that way heals his heart,
Without knowing it, from various ills —
A bird and a tree say to him: Friend.

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

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