The living owe it to those who no longer can speak to tell their story for them.
CZESLAW MILOSZConsciousness even in my sleep changes primary colors. The features of my face melt like a wax doll in the fire. And who can consent to see in the mirror the mere face of man?
More Czeslaw Milosz Quotes
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Two attributes of a poet, avidity of the eye and the desire to describe that which he sees.
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What is poetry which does not save nations or people?
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Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth.
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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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Be young forever, seasons of the earth.
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You see how I try To reach with words What matters most And how I fail.
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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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A weak human mercy walks in the corridors of hospitals and is like a half-thawed winter.
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I have defined poetry as a ‘passionate pursuit of the Real.
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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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Yet falling in love is not the same as being able to love.
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The child who dwells inside us trusts that there are wise men somewhere who know the truth.
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If I am all mankind, are they themselves without me?
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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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Human material seems to have one major defect: it does not like to be considered merely as human material. It finds it hard to endure the feeling that it must resign itself to passive acceptance of changes introduced from above.
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