“I knew that I would speak in the language of the vanquished
No more durable than old customs, family rituals,
Christmas tinsel, and once a year the hilarity of carols.”
"1945" (1985), trans. Czesław Miłosz and Robert Hass
New Poems (1985-1987)
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