Poetry is news brought to the mountains by a unicorn and an echo.
CZESLAW MILOSZIf I am all mankind, are they themselves without me?
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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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All was taken away from you: white dresses, wings, even existence.
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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 purpose of poetry is to remind us / how difficult it is to remain just one person.
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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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What is poetry which does not save nations or people?
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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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The true enemy of man is generalization.
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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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I am not my own friend.Time cuts me in two.
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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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I have no wisdom, no skills, and no faith but I received strength, it tears the world apart. I shall break, a heavy wave, against its shores and a young wave will cover my trace.
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Forget the suffering You caused others. Forget the suffering Others caused you. The waters run and run, Springs sparkle and are done, You walk the earth you are forgetting.
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The revolt against one’s environment is usually ‘shame’ of one’s environment.
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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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