Czeslaw Milosz, Polish writer, recipient of 1980 Nobel Prize in Literature

“Love means 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.” (from “The World: Love,” 1943)

June 30, 1911-Aug. 14, 2004