On the day the world ends A bee circles a clover, A fisherman mends a glimmering net.
CZESLAW MILOSZThe purpose of poetry is to remind us / how difficult it is to remain just one person.
More Czeslaw Milosz Quotes
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You who think of us: they lived only in delusion, Know that we the People of the Book, will never die!
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He returns years later, has no demands. He wants only one, most precious thing: To see, purely and simply, without name, Without expectations, fears, or hopes, At the edge where there is no I or not-I.
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We have become indifferent to content, and react, not even to form, but to technique, to technical efficiency itself.
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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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Men will clutch at illusions when they have nothing else to hold to.
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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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I am not my own friend.Time cuts me in two.
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Love means to look at yourself The way one looks at distant things For you are only one thing among many.
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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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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 true enemy of man is generalization.
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When a writer is born into a family, the family is finished.
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The voice of passion is better than the voice of reason. The passionless cannot change history.
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Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth.
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A man should not love the moon. An ax should not lose weight in his hand. His garden should smell of rotting apples, And grow a fair amount of nettles.
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