“From life, from the apple cut by the flaming knife,
what grain will be saved?My son, believe me, nothing remains,
Only adult toil,
the furrow of fate in the palm.
Only toil,
Nothing more.”

"Farewell" (1945)
Rescue (1945)

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

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