Consciousness even in my sleep changes primary colors. The features of my face melt like a wax doll in the fire. And who can consent to see in the mirror the mere face of man?
CZESLAW MILOSZI am composed of contradictions, which is why poetry is a better form for me than philosophy.
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I’ve always regretted that I’m made of contradictions. But, if contradiction is impossible to overcome, we have to accept both its ends.
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The purpose of poetry is to remind us / how difficult it is to remain just one person.
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Do not feel safe. The poet remembers. You can kill one, but another is born. The words are written down, the deed, the date.
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What is this enigmatic impulse that does not allow one to settle down in the achieved, the finished? I think it is a quest for reality.
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The true enemy of man is generalization.
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Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth.
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The child who dwells inside us trusts that there are wise men somewhere who know the truth.
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It is impossible to communicate to people who have not experienced it the undefinable menace of total rationalism.
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And if there is no lining to the world? If a thrush on a branch is not a sign, But just a thrush on the branch? If night and day Make no sense following each other?
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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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Human material seems to have one major defect: it does not like to be considered merely as human material. It finds it hard to endure the feeling that it must resign itself to passive acceptance of changes introduced from above.
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In a room where people unanimously maintain a conspiracy of silence, one word of truth sounds like a pistol shot.
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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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Men will clutch at illusions when they have nothing else to hold to.
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If I am all mankind, are they themselves without me?
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