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The voice of passion is better than the voice of reason. The passionless cannot change history.

Czeslaw Milosz

Poetry is news brought to the mountains by a unicorn and an echo.
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Echo Mountain Poetry
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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Earth Forget Reason Sparkle Suffering Yourself
Language is the only homeland.
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Home Land Language
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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Beyond Death Essence Forest Heaven Rise Run Sun Wait
Irony is the glory of slaves.
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Glory Irony One Liner Slave
On the day the world ends A bee circles a clover, A fisherman mends a glimmering net.
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Circle Day End Repair World
A weak human mercy walks in the corridors of hospitals and is like a half-thawed winter.
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Hospital Human Walk Weakness Winter
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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Book. Philosophy Country Fate Influence Realization Time
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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Believe Discover Human Learning Life Work
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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Art Day Irony Myself Praise Thinking True Value
The purpose of poetry is to remind us how difficult it is to remain just one person, for our house is open, there are no keys in the doors, and invisible guests come in and out at will.
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General Oneself Poetry Purpose Reminder
A true opium of the people is a belief in nothingness after death.
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Belief Death People True
When a writer is born into a family, the family is finished.
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Born Family Poet Writing
The voice of passion is better than the voice of reason. The passionless cannot change history.
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Better History Inspirational Passion Reason Voice
Men will clutch at illusions when they have nothing else to hold to.
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Catch Hold Illusion Man
What is poetry which does not save nations or people?
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Nation People Poetry Save

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