Our memory is childish and it saves only what we need.
CZESLAW MILOSZWhen a writer is born into a family, the family is finished.
More Czeslaw Milosz Quotes
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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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The soul exceeds its circumstances.
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I imagine the earth when I am no more: Women’s dresses, dewy lilacs, a song in the valley. Yet the books will be there on the shelves, well born, Derived from people, but also from radiance, heights.
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Irony is the glory of slaves.
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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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Two attributes of a poet, avidity of the eye and the desire to describe that which he sees.
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All of us yearn for the highest wisdom, but we have to rely on ourselves in the end.
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I am composed of contradictions, which is why poetry is a better form for me than philosophy.
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And if there is no lining to the world? If a thrush on a branch is not a sign, But just a thrush on the branch? If night and day Make no sense following each other?
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Consolation Calm down. Both your sins and your good deeds will be lost in oblivion.
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I have defined poetry as a ‘passionate pursuit of the Real.
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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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A true opium of the people is a belief in nothingness after death.
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Language is the only homeland.
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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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