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15th
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15th
“Abundance of all kinds will disappear, fade away,
Treasures and power will be swept away,
whole people will tremble,
Of the things of this world only two will remain,
Two only: poetry and goodness… and nothing else…”
— Cyprian Norwid, Polish poet, dramatist, painter, and sculptor (1821-1883), Letter to Bronislaw Z., (1879), cited in Cyprian Norwid, Twayne Publishers, 1974, p. 63. (Illustration: Cyprian Norwid, Self-portrait)
