After reading my post, What I Needed, many of you commented that you’d like to know more about the writings of Czeslaw Milosz. So here is a treat for you – one of his poems. It is one of my favorites:
LOVE (Rescue)
Love means to learn to look at yourself
The way one looks at distant things
For you are only one thing among many.
And whoever sees that way heals his heart,
Without knowing it, from various ills-
A bird and a tree say to him: Friend.Then he wants to use himself and things
So that they stand in the glow of ripeness.
It doesn’t matter whether he knows what he serves:
Who serves best doesn’t always understand.- Czeslaw Milosz
The Way One Looks At Distant Things – a poetic definition of Love, by Czeslaw Milosz: http://t.co/1ff56zT1
Why yes, that IS a lovely poem.
What a beautiful poem. I like the word in parenthesis!