Last night, I promised that if you were good, I’d post a stanza by Czeslaw Milosz. Actually, you weren’t very good; you didn’t leave any comments on my blog. Hence, you didn’t remind me either. Oh well.
Man has been given to understand
that he lives only by the grace of those in power.
Let him therefore busy himself sipping coffee, catching butterflies.
He who cares for the Republic will have his right hand cut off.
from Counsels by Milosz, Montgeron, 1959
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