“In
the very essence of poetry there is something indecent:
a
thing is brought forth which we didn’t know we had in us,
so
we blink our eyes, as if a tiger had sprung out
and
stood in the light, lashing his tail.”— Polish-American Nobel Prize-winning
poet, essayist, translator and diplomat Czeslaw Milosz (1911-2004), “Ars
Poetica?,” translated by Czeslaw Milosz and Lillian Vallee, included in The Collected Poems 1931-1987 (1988)
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