Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth.
CZESLAW MILOSZI 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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I imagine the earth when I am no more: Women’s dresses, dewy lilacs, a song in the valley. Yet the books will be there on the shelves, well born, Derived from people, but also from radiance, heights.
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The partition separating life from death is so tenuous. The unbelievable fragility of our organism suggests a vision on a screen: a kind of mist condenses itself into a human shape, lasts a moment and scatters.
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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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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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The purpose of poetry is to remind us / how difficult it is to remain just one person.
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What has no shadow has no strength to live.
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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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The living owe it to those who no longer can speak to tell their story for them.
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It is sweet to think I was a companion in an expedition that never ends.
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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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Even if that is so, there will remain A word wakened by lips that perish, A tireless messenger who runs and runs Through interstellar fields, through the revolving galaxies, And calls out, protests, screams.
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Yet falling in love is not the same as being able to love.
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The revolt against one’s environment is usually ‘shame’ of one’s environment.
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Be young forever, seasons of the earth.
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