Consolation Calm down. Both your sins and your good deeds will be lost in oblivion.
CZESLAW MILOSZEvery poet depends upon generations who wrote in his native tongue; he inherits styles and forms elaborated by those who lived before him. At the same time, though, he feels that those old means of expression are not adequate to his own experience.
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Learning To believe you are magnificent. And gradually to discover that you are not magnificent. Enough labor for one human life.
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Do you know how it is when one wakes at night suddenly and asks, listening to the pounding heart: what more do you want, insatiable?
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The true enemy of man is generalization.
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Consciousness 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?
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Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth.
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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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Men will clutch at illusions when they have nothing else to hold to.
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It is sweet to think I was a companion in an expedition that never ends.
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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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The soul exceeds its circumstances.
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It is impossible to communicate to people who have not experienced it the undefinable menace of total rationalism.
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When I die, I will see the lining of the world. The other side, beyond bird, mountain, sunset.
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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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Be young forever, seasons of the earth.
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Poetry is news brought to the mountains by a unicorn and an echo.
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