He returns years later, has no demands. He wants only one, most precious thing: To see, purely and simply, without name, Without expectations, fears, or hopes, At the edge where there is no I or not-I.
CZESLAW MILOSZWhen a writer is born into a family, the family is finished.
More Czeslaw Milosz Quotes
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It was only toward the middle of the twentieth century that the inhabitants of many European countries came, in general unpleasantly, to the realization that their fate could be influenced directly by intricate and abstruse books of philosophy.
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Language is the only homeland.
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The soul exceeds its circumstances.
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The voice of passion is better than the voice of reason. The passionless cannot change history.
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Consolation Calm down. Both your sins and your good deeds will be lost in oblivion.
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All of us yearn for the highest wisdom, but we have to rely on ourselves in the end.
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Poetry is a dividend from what you know and what you are.
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You who think of us: they lived only in delusion, Know that we the People of the Book, will never die!
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Learning To believe you are magnificent. And gradually to discover that you are not magnificent. Enough labor for one human life.
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When I curse Fate, it’s not me, but the earth in me.
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I was left behind with the immensity of existing things. A sponge, suffering because it cannot saturate itself; a river, suffering because reflections of clouds and trees are not clouds and trees.
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The living owe it to those who no longer can speak to tell their story for them.
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Not that I want to be a god or a hero. Just to change into a tree, grow for ages, not hurt anyone.
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Only a white-haired old man, who would be a prophet Yet is not a prophet, for he’s much too busy, Repeats while he binds his tomatoes: No other end of the world will there be, No other end of the world will there be.
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I have defined poetry as a ‘passionate pursuit of the Real.
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