Czesław Miłosz

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

“In a room where
people unanimously maintain
a conspiracy of silence,
one word of truth
sounds like a pistol shot.”

  Czesław Miłosz, born 30 June 1911.

Czeslaw Milosz ranks among the most respected figures in twentieth-century Polish literature, as well as one of the most respected contemporary poets in the world, being awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1980.