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I have no wisdom, no skills, and no faith
but I received strength, it tears the world apart.
I shall break, a heavy wave, against its shores
and a young wave will cover my trace.
--
"Hymn" (1935), trans. by Czes?aw Mi?osz

 

Czeslaw Milosz

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