It is sweet to think I was a companion in an expedition that never ends.
CZESLAW MILOSZI think that I am here, on this earth, to present a report on it, but to whom I don’t know. As if I were sent so that whatever takes place has meaning because it changes into memory.
More Czeslaw Milosz Quotes
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All was taken away from you: white dresses, wings, even existence.
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Consolation Calm down. Both your sins and your good deeds will be lost in oblivion.
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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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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 am composed of contradictions, which is why poetry is a better form for me than philosophy.
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A weak human mercy walks in the corridors of hospitals and is like a half-thawed winter.
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The revolt against one’s environment is usually ‘shame’ of one’s environment.
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Poetry is a dividend from what you know and what you are.
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What has no shadow has no strength to live.
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What is poetry which does not save nations or people?
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The true enemy of man is generalization.
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When a writer is born into a family, the family is finished.
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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 purpose of poetry is to remind us / how difficult it is to remain just one person.
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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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