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I imagine the earth when I am no more: Women's dresses, dewy lilacs, a song in the valley. Yet the books will be there on the shelves, well born, Derived from people, but also from radiance, heights.

Czeslaw Milosz

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Czeslaw Milosz
Age: 93 †
Born: 1911
Born: June 30
Died: 2004
Died: August 14
Diplomat
Essayist
Pedagogue
Poet
Translator
University Teacher
Writer
Clarksburg
West Virginia
Miłosz
Czelaw Milosz
Women
Height
Dewy
Wells
Dresses
Lilac
Book
Imagine
Radiance
Well
Books
Derived
People
Born
Heights
Song
Valley
Also
Shelves
Earth
Valleys
Lilacs

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