The Issa Valley Quotes

“The living owe it to those who no longer can speak to tell their story for them.”
― Czesław Miłosz, The Issa Valley

“Kad nusinuodytum žiurknuodžiais, reikia prarasti bet kokią viltį ir drauge visiškai pasiduoti savo mintims, tada jos užstoja visą pasaulį ir žmogus ničnieko neberegi, išskyrus savo likimą.”
― Czesław Miłosz, The Issa Valley

“Unable to restrain himself, driven by sheer love for the animal, he fired. It was a young one, so slender that what he had taken for a squirrel was not a squirrel but the shimmer of color deposited in its wake. Its body bending and unbending on the moss, it clutched its chest with its tiny paws, at the bloody patch on its little white vest. It didn't know what death was; it was trying to remove it, as if it were a spike on which it had been impaled and around which it could only pivot.”
― Czeslaw Milosz, Vale do Issa, O