Czesław Miłosz vs. E. M. Forster
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
Czesław Miłosz
1911 – 2004
Literature
United States
Polish poet, essayist, and translator who received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1980.
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"LearningTo believe you are magnificent. And gradually to discover that you are not magnificent. Enough labor for one human life."
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E. M. Forster
1879 – 1970
Literature
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Bloomsbury Group
Edward Morgan Forster was an English author. He is best known for his novels, particularly A Room with a View (1908), Howards End (1910) and A Passage to India (1924). He also wrote numerous short stories, essays, speeches and broadcasts, as well as biographies and pageant plays.
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"I am the means and not the end. I am the food and not the life. Stand by yourself, as that boy has stood. I cannot save you. For poetry is a spirit; and they th…"
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Connections
E. M. Forster was influenced by Czesław Miłosz
Shared era: 1911 – 1970
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