Consolation Calm down. Both your sins and your good deeds will be lost in oblivion.
CZESLAW MILOSZBe young forever, seasons of the earth.
More Czeslaw Milosz Quotes
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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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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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Men will clutch at illusions when they have nothing else to hold to.
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And now I am ready to keep running When the sun rises beyond the borderlands of death. I already see mountain ridges in the heavenly forest Where, beyond every essence, a new essence awaits.
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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.
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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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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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I liked beaches, swimming pools, and clinics for there they were the bone of my bone, flesh of my flesh. I pitied them and myself, but this will not protect me. The word and the thought are over.
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I knew that I would speak in the language of the vanquished No more durable than old customs, family rituals, Christmas tinsel, and once a year the hilarity of carols.
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Poetry is news brought to the mountains by a unicorn and an echo.
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The revolt against one’s environment is usually ‘shame’ of one’s environment.
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Yet falling in love is not the same as being able to love.
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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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The soul exceeds its circumstances.
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On the day the world ends A bee circles a clover, A fisherman mends a glimmering net.
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