Czeslaw Milosz (1911–2004) Polish, poet, diplomat, prosaist, writer, and translator
"Child of Europe" (1946), trans. Jan Darowski
Daylight (1953)
“Courage, not cleverness; not even inspiration, is the grain of mustard that grows up to be a great tree.”
Source: Culture and Value (1980), p. 44e
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