Wednesday, September 15, 2004

If There Is No God


If there is no God,
Not everything is permitted to man.
He is still his brother's keeper
And he is not permitted to sadden his brother,
By saying that there is no God.

-Czeslaw Milosz (Translated from the Polish by Milosz and Robert Hass)

(from The New Yorker, August 30, 2004)

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