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The Case for Poetry

committed the sin of despair. Pitying him I deflected my pity for myself.” Milosz rejects all dogma, but the law that he will never break is the law against self-pity. Milosz’s poems seem so simple and clear that they permit you to develop the preposterous notion that you, too, could write poems like that. I first thought that was the result of his courtesy in treating us as his equals—never, not even in his most ambitious poems, condescending to us. But Second Space leads me to realize the essential truth that he writes his poems for us, both for our benefit and in our behalf. He is the most generous of great poets.