The child who dwells inside us trusts that there are wise men somewhere who know the truth.
CZESLAW MILOSZConsolation Calm down. Both your sins and your good deeds will be lost in oblivion.
More Czeslaw Milosz Quotes
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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 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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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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What has no shadow has no strength to live.
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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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Poetry is a dividend from what you know and what you are.
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The voice of passion is better than the voice of reason. The passionless cannot change history.
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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.
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What is poetry which does not save nations or people?
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Our memory is childish and it saves only what we need.
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Men will clutch at illusions when they have nothing else to hold to.
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Poetry is news brought to the mountains by a unicorn and an echo.
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Yet falling in love is not the same as being able to love.
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Irony is the glory of slaves.
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I have defined poetry as a ‘passionate pursuit of the Real.
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