Status Updates From En defensa del fervor

“No one should shun the companionship of Czeslaw Milosz’s books.” (125)

"But it's a puzzlement, to be friends with a man who's cheerful, good-natured, open, kind, intelligent, brimming with curiosity, all the while knowing that he has another side, less safe, less settled, more dramatic, far removed from his usual calm sea of courtliness."