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Do not feel safe. The poet remembers. You can kill one, but another is born. The words are written down, the deed, the date.

Czeslaw Milosz

What is this enigmatic impulse that does not allow one to settle down in the achieved, the finished? I think it is a quest for reality.
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Achievement Allow Finish Oneself Reality Settle Thinking
Poetry is news brought to the mountains by a unicorn and an echo.
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Echo Mountain Poetry
I 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.
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Change Earth Memories Present Report Thinking
What is poetry which does not save nations or people?
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Nation People Poetry Save
Even if that is so, there will remain A word wakened by lips that perish, A tireless messenger who runs and runs Through interstellar fields, through the revolving galaxies, And calls out, protests, screams.
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Awakening Call Lips Protest Run Scream Word
Do not feel safe. The poet remembers. You can kill one, but another is born. The words are written down, the deed, the date.
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Date Death Feeling Poet Remember Safety Writing Yourself
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
The soul exceeds its circumstances.
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Circumstance Exceed Soul
Irony is the glory of slaves.
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Glory Irony One Liner Slave
What has no shadow has no strength to live.
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Live Shadow Strength
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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Distant Love Way Yourself
Poetry is a dividend from what you know and what you are.
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Divide Poetry Yourself
If I am all mankind, are they themselves without me?
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Kind Man Myself
The living owe it to those who no longer can speak to tell their story for them.
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Live Speak Story Talk Tribute
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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Death Illusion Live People Thinking
We have become indifferent to content, and react, not even to form, but to technique, to technical efficiency itself.
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Different Efficient Form Reaction Technique

Do not feel safe. The poet remembers. You can kill one, but another is born. The words are written down, the deed, the date.

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