At every sunrise I renounce the doubts of night and greet the new day of a most precious delusion.
CZESLAW MILOSZGrow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth. Do not follow those who lie in contempt of reality. Let your lie be even more logical than the truth itself, so the weary travelers may find repose.
More Czeslaw Milosz Quotes
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Poetry is news brought to the mountains by a unicorn and an echo.
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I have defined poetry as a ‘passionate pursuit of the Real.
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When a writer is born into a family, the family is finished.
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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.
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Not that I want to be a god or a hero. Just to change into a tree, grow for ages, not hurt anyone.
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The purpose of poetry is to remind us how difficult it is to remain just one person, for our house is open, there are no keys in the doors, and invisible guests come in and out at will.
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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.
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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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In a room where people unanimously maintain a conspiracy of silence, one word of truth sounds like a pistol shot.
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The true enemy of man is generalization.
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Men will clutch at illusions when they have nothing else to hold to.
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The voice of passion is better than the voice of reason. The passionless cannot change history.
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The living owe it to those who no longer can speak to tell their story for them.
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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’ve always regretted that I’m made of contradictions. But, if contradiction is impossible to overcome, we have to accept both its ends.
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