Be young forever, seasons of the earth.
CZESLAW MILOSZAll was taken away from you: white dresses, wings, even existence.
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Forget the suffering You caused others. Forget the suffering Others caused you. The waters run and run, Springs sparkle and are done, You walk the earth you are forgetting.
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At every sunrise I renounce the doubts of night and greet the new day of a most precious delusion.
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It’s true that what is morbid is highly valued today, and so you may think that I am only joking or that I’ve devised just one more means of praising Art with the help of irony.
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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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The death of a man is like the fall of a mighty nation That had valiant armies, captains, and prophets, And wealthy ports and ships all over the seas.
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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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All was taken away from you: white dresses, wings, even existence.
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I have defined poetry as a ‘passionate pursuit of the Real.
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What is poetry which does not save nations or people?
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When a writer is born into a family, the family is finished.
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A true opium of the people is a belief in nothingness after death – the huge solace of thinking that for our betrayals, greed, cowardice, murders we are not going to be judged.
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Consolation Calm down. Both your sins and your good deeds will be lost in oblivion.
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We have become indifferent to content, and react, not even to form, but to technique, to technical efficiency itself.
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When I die, I will see the lining of the world. The other side, beyond bird, mountain, sunset.
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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?
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I have no wisdom, no skills, and no faith but I received strength, it tears the world apart. I shall break, a heavy wave, against its shores and a young wave will cover my trace.
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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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For a country without a past is nothing, a word That, hardly spoken, loses its meaning, A perishable wall destroyed by flame, An echo of animal emotions.
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From life, from the apple cut by the flaming knife, what grain will be saved? My son, believe me, nothing remains, Only adult toil, the furrow of fate in the palm. Only toil, Nothing more.
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I am composed of contradictions, which is why poetry is a better form for me than philosophy.
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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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Every poet depends upon generations who wrote in his native tongue; he inherits styles and forms elaborated by those who lived before him. At the same time, though, he feels that those old means of expression are not adequate to his own experience.
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A man should not love the moon. An ax should not lose weight in his hand. His garden should smell of rotting apples, And grow a fair amount of nettles.
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Irony is the glory of slaves.
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When I curse Fate, it’s not me, but the earth in me.
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Language is the only homeland.
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