LEOPOLD STAFF (1878 - 1957) WAS BORN ON THIS DAY (14.11) 142 YEARS AGO!■ Leopold Staff (14 November
LEOPOLD STAFF (1878 - 1957) WAS BORN ON THIS DAY (14.11) 142 YEARS AGO!■ Leopold Staff (14 November 1878 in Lviv [now in Ukraine] 31 May 1957 in Skarżysko-Kamienna) was born on 14 November 1878. He was a Polish poet and one of the greatest artists of European Modernism, honored two times by honorary degrees. He was also nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Representative of symbolism in the poetry of Young Poland, an author of many philosophical poems strongly influenced by the idea of the Übermensch, the ideas of the Franciscan order, and paradoxes of Christianity.Three small towns,So small that all of themCould be contained in one.They are not on the map.They were destroyed in the war.For in them lived peopleWho were hard-working, quiet,Peace-loving.O tepid, indifferent brothers!Why does none of the look for these towns?How poor is the man whoasks no questions. -- source link
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