Summary

"I went on a journey in order to acquaint myself with my province, in a two-horse wagon with a lot of fodder and a tin bucket rattling in the back. The bucket was required for the horses to drink from. I traveled through a country of hills and pine groves that gave way to woodlands, where swirls of smoke hovered over the roofs of houses, as if they were on fire, for they were chimneyless cabins; I crossed districts of fields and lakes. It was so interesting to be moving, to give the horses their rein, and wait until, in the next valley, a village slowly appeared, or a park with the white spot of a manor in it. And always we were barked at by a dog, assiduous in its duty. That was the beginning of the century; this is its . I have been thinking not only of the people who lived there once but also of the generations of dogs accompanying them in their everyday bustle, and one night-I don't know where it came from-in a pre-dawn sleep, that funny and tender phrase composed itself: a road-side dog." --Road-Side Dog

Author Biography

Czeslaw Milosz received the 1978 Neustadt International Prize in Literature and the 1980 Nobel Prize in Literature. Since 1961 he has been a professor of Slavic languages and literature at the University of California at Berkeley.

Road-side Dog	p. 3
Narrow-minded	p. 4
Eyes	p. 5
Without Control	p. 6
A Search	p. 7
Not Mine	p. 8
The Last Judgment	p. 9
Anima	p. 10
Old People	p. 11
Is Awareness Sufficient?	p. 12
In the Place of the Creator	p. 13
Meanwhile and Make-Believe	p. 14
Embarrassing	p. 15
Feeling from Inside	p. 16
To Sing Gods and Heroes	p. 17
Grateful	p. 18
Acts and Grace	p. 19
Quotation	p. 20
Theology, Poetry	p. 21
Discreet Charm of Nihilism	p. 22
A Flaw	p. 27
Childishness	p. 28
Dislike	p. 29
Alexandria	p. 30
In a Landscape	p. 31
Somebody Different	p. 32
The Past	p. 33
Unmanly	p. 34
Poetry's Sex	p. 35
Power of Speech	p. 36
Dresses	p. 37
Salvation and Damnation	p. 38
Pursuing a Goal	p. 39
A Pact	p. 40
Tropics	p. 41
Pelicans	p. 42
A Ball	p. 43
Those Fantasies	p. 44
Inserting a Meaning	p. 45
Leaning Into	p. 46
A Warning	p. 47
How It Will Be	p. 48
Our Community	p. 49
Warmth	p. 50
That	p. 51
A Discovery	p. 52
Future	p. 53
Labyrinth	p. 54
A Country of Dreams	p. 55
Hollywood	p. 56
Milder	p. 57
A Polish Poet	p. 58
Distillation	p. 59
Learning	p. 60
Is It So?	p. 61
A Goal	p. 62
The Novel	p. 63
Melodrama	p. 64
A Fairy Tale	p. 65
A Desire	p. 66
Guilt	p. 67
Monologues	p. 68
In Africa	p. 69
Longings	p. 70
To Wash	p. 71
My Ideal	p. 72
Dates	p. 73
I Saw	p. 74
If Only	p. 75
Decency	p. 76
It Appears	p. 77
85 Years	p. 78
The Language	p. 79
Profit	p. 80
Falling in Love	p. 81
But	p. 82
Contrast	p. 83
The Complaint of a Classic	p. 84
What a Fate	p. 85
Reverse Telescope	p. 86
Watering Can	p. 87
A Wanderer	p. 88
Again	p. 89
In That City	p. 90
You Don't Know	p. 91
O!	p. 92
From My Dentist's Window	p. 93
Autumn	p. 94
Where Does It Come From?	p. 95
A Castle from a Dream	p. 96
A Little Treatise on Colors	p. 97
Tanglewood	p. 99
A Strategy	p. 100
The Law of the Earth	p. 101
In Her Diary	p. 102
Beyond My Strength	p. 104
Why Religion?	p. 105
Pity	p. 106
Helene	p. 107
Helene's Religion	p. 108
Yokimura	p. 109
America	p. 111
Why Do I Let My Subjects to Others	p. 115
A Banner	p. 117
River Basins	p. 118
The Edge of the Continent	p. 119
Fleas	p. 122
Archaeology	p. 125
Mrs. Darwin	p. 127
One Life	p. 129
Chur-chu-rah	p. 132
Transmission of Acquired Traits	p. 133
Carrying a Splinter	p. 136
A Certain Poet	p. 138
Father's Worries	p. 140
Oeuvre	p. 141
Among People	p. 143
Christopher Robin	p. 144
Beautiful Girl	p. 145
Palm Reading	p. 146
Husband and Wife	p. 147
Alastor	p. 148
A Historian's Worries	p. 151
Tale of a Hero	p. 154
On a Desert Island	p. 156
A Red Umbrella	p. 158
The Secret of Cats	p. 160
Coming Unglued	p. 163
Taboo	p. 165
Olympians' Games	p. 167
Less and Less Confessions	p. 170
A Priest and Casanova	p. 173
Dictionary	p. 177
Love of Knowledge	p. 180
Tale of a Convert	p. 183
A Philosopher	p. 196
In Praise of Inequality	p. 199
Inside and Outside	p. 200
Be Like Others	p. 202
A Key	p. 204
Ancestors	p. 206
Rivers	p. 208
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