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Love means to look at yourself The way one looks at distant things For you are only one thing among many.

Czeslaw Milosz

When a writer is born into a family, the family is finished.
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Born Family Poet Writing
Consolation Calm down. Both your sins and your good deeds will be lost in oblivion.
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Calm Goodness Lost Oblivion Sin Yourself
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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Myself Skills Strength Trace Wisdom Young
Yet falling in love is not the same as being able to love.
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Difference Fall Love
Men will clutch at illusions when they have nothing else to hold to.
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Catch Hold Illusion Man
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
Be young forever, seasons of the earth.
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Earth Forever Season Young
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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Growth Hands Love Man Moon Weight
You see how I try To reach with words What matters most And how I fail.
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Failure Myself Reach Try
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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Animal Country Destroy Flame Hard Past Speak Word
If I am all mankind, are they themselves without me?
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Kind Man Myself
The purpose of poetry is to remind us / how difficult it is to remain just one person.
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Difficult Oneself Person Poetry Purpose Reminder
The history of my stupidity would fill many volumes.
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History Myself Stupidity Volume
I am not my own friend.Time cuts me in two.
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Friendship Myself Time
Our memory is childish and it saves only what we need.
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Children Memories Need Ourselves Save
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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Expression Form Generation Himself Inheritance Poet

Love means to look at yourself The way one looks at distant things For you are only one thing among many.

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