I liked beaches, swimming pools, and clinics for there they were the bone of my bone, flesh of my flesh. I pitied them and myself, but this will not protect me. The word and the thought are over.
CZESLAW MILOSZIt 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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It is sweet to think I was a companion in an expedition that never ends.
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Our memory is childish and it saves only what we need.
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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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The history of my stupidity would fill many volumes.
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Poetry is news brought to the mountains by a unicorn and an echo.
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Language is the only homeland.
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You who think of us: they lived only in delusion, Know that we the People of the Book, will never die!
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Be young forever, seasons of the earth.
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Only a white-haired old man, who would be a prophet Yet is not a prophet, for he’s much too busy, Repeats while he binds his tomatoes: No other end of the world will there be, No other end of the world will there be.
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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.
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If I am all mankind, are they themselves without me?
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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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I am not my own friend.Time cuts me in two.
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I have defined poetry as a ‘passionate pursuit of the Real.
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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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