More from Czeslaw Milosz
It is sweet to think I was a companion in an expedition that never ends.
Czeslaw MiloszCzeslaw Milosz 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.
Czeslaw MiloszCzeslaw Milosz It is impossible to communicate to people who have not experienced it the undefinable menace of total rationalism.
Czeslaw MiloszCzeslaw Milosz A weak human mercy walks in the corridors of hospitals and is like a half-thawed winter.
Czeslaw MiloszCzeslaw Milosz What is poetry which does not save nations or people?
Czeslaw MiloszCzeslaw Milosz You see how I try To reach with words What matters most And how I fail.
Czeslaw MiloszCzeslaw Milosz The child who dwells inside us trusts that there are wise men somewhere who know the truth.
Czeslaw MiloszCzeslaw Milosz 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.
Czeslaw MiloszCzeslaw Milosz In a room where people unanimously maintain a conspiracy of silence, one word of truth sounds like a pistol shot.
Czeslaw MiloszCzeslaw Milosz What has no shadow has no strength to live.
Czeslaw MiloszCzeslaw Milosz 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.
Czeslaw MiloszCzeslaw Milosz 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.
Czeslaw MiloszCzeslaw Milosz I’ve always regretted that I’m made of contradictions. But, if contradiction is impossible to overcome, we have to accept both its ends.
Czeslaw MiloszCzeslaw Milosz Our memory is childish and it saves only what we need.
Czeslaw MiloszCzeslaw Milosz A true opium of the people is a belief in nothingness after death – the huge solace of thinking that for our betrayals, greed, cowardice, murders we are not going to be judged.
Czeslaw MiloszCzeslaw Milosz 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.
Czeslaw MiloszCzeslaw Milosz
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Without involvement, there is no commitment. Mark it down, asterisk it, circle it, underline it.” Stephen Covey “It takes a deep commitment to change and an even deeper commitment to grow.
Ralph EllisonRalph Ellison I’ve never before been so aware of the thousands of little good things, the thousands of things that go right every day.
A. J. JacobsA. J. Jacobs If you love what you do and are willing to do what it takes, it’s within your reach.
Steve WozniakSteve Wozniak A great deal of beauty is rapture. A circle is a necessity. Otherwise you would see no one. We each have our circle.
Gertrude SteinGertrude Stein Whoever sets himself to see things as they are will find himself one of a very small circle but it is only by this small circle resolutely doing its own work that adequate ideas will ever get current at all.
Matthew ArnoldMatthew Arnold Genius, all over the world, stands hand in hand, and one shock of recognition runs the whole circle round.
Herman MelvilleHerman Melville Building a wardrobe is like building a circle of friends your whole life…. Your own beauty is to be yourself, but of course we need tools and accessories.
Diane Von FurstenbergDiane Von Furstenberg In a narrow circle the mind grows narrow. The more one expands, the larger their aims.
Friedrich SchillerFriedrich Schiller