From "Against Incomprehensible Poetry" by Czeslaw Milosz:
"After a long life devoted to reflecting and writing, I have been thinking about what is, for me, the core of my reflections. I have reached the conclusion that it is exactly the same as when I was fifteen years old and, reared in the Roman Catholic religion, encountered for the first time the so-called scientific worldview in my biology classes. True, we hear, nowadays that we have learned to divide the two fields and that the truth of religion has nothing in common with the truth of science. The religious imagination in our scientific-technological civilization, however, has been eroding inexorably. Those who participate in religious rites, whatever their religion, have a great deal of difficulty maintaining their faith, whether they admit it or not. And those who have received the grace of faith believe differently from their forefathers.
This is a rather peculiar introduction to reflections on poetry. One might ask whether the questions that constrain the mind of a thelogian or a philosopher have any significance for the poet today. My response to this is yes, and I shall attempt to explain why."*
*Czeslaw Milosz, To Begin Where I am Selected Essays, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001, p. 373
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