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• Milosz
  Milosz

  noun

  Czeslaw 1911–2004, U.S. poet and novelist, born in Poland: Nobel Prize 1980.
• Miłosz
  Miłosz

  noun

  Czeslaw (ˈtʃɛslɔː; ˈtʃɛswaf). 1911–2004, US poet and writer, born in Lithuania, writing in Polish; author of The Captive Mind (1953). Nobel prize for literature 1980

Milosz

American  

[mee-losh, mee-wawsh] / ˈmi lɒʃ, ˈmi wɔʃ /

noun

1. Czeslaw 1911–2004, U.S. poet and novelist, born in Poland: Nobel Prize 1980.

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Miłosz British  

/ ˈmiwoʃ, ˈmiːlɒʃ /

noun

1. Czeslaw (ˈtʃɛslɔː; ˈtʃɛswaf). 1911–2004, US poet and writer, born in Lithuania, writing in Polish; author of The Captive Mind (1953). Nobel prize for literature 1980

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Milosz Miłosz

In an eloquent eulogy bookended by the poetry of Czeslaw Milosz and Langston Hughes, he exhorted Americans to “practice the politics of the preamble to the Constitution” as the “only way” to honor Lewis’ life.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 10, 2024

Milosz Krasinski was on a road trip through Europe this summer when he fell for this swindle: At a gas station, he found a makeshift gift shop selling vignettes at a reduced rate.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 28, 2023

Here’s one entry in its entirety, in lines Rilke or Havel or Milosz would envy:

From New York Times ● Jan. 11, 2023

It has published articles and literary works by Catholic and liberal intellectuals, including Nobel Prize-winning poets Wislawa Szymborska and Czeslaw Milosz.

From Washington Times ● Jan. 5, 2021

Stuck in Warsaw, unsure if he would ever be allowed to leave or to see his family again, Milosz was despondent.

From The New Yorker ● May 22, 2017

“Help me create ever-enduring love,” the great Polish poet Czesław Miłosz wrote, “from my persistent dissonance with the world.”

From New York Times ● Nov. 23, 2021

Miłosz: A Biography by Andrzej Franaszek is a fascinating account of the life of the Polish poet Czesław Miłosz.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 8, 2017

Nothing can be known if you agree with the Galician proverb and Czesław Miłosz and the climate deniers.

From Slate ● May 18, 2017

“Innumerable millions of human beings were killed in this century in the name of utopia,” the Polish poet Czesław Miłosz reminded his audience, at a 1986 PEN conference.

From The New Yorker ● Sep. 26, 2016

Incidentally, in the Nobel literature league table, Poland is on four, the last two in 1980 and 1996, for the poets Czesław Miłosz and Wisława Szymborska respectively – though not, shockingly, for Zbigniew Herbert.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 22, 2010

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