Consolation Calm down. Both your sins and your good deeds will be lost in oblivion.
CZESLAW MILOSZThe purpose of poetry is to remind us / how difficult it is to remain just one person.
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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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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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Language is the only homeland.
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When a writer is born into a family, the family is finished.
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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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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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The history of my stupidity would fill many volumes.
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You see how I try To reach with words What matters most And how I fail.
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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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I am not my own friend.Time cuts me in two.
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It was only toward the middle of the twentieth century that the inhabitants of many European countries came, in general unpleasantly, to the realization that their fate could be influenced directly by intricate and abstruse books of philosophy.
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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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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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All of us yearn for the highest wisdom, but we have to rely on ourselves in the end.
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Poetry is news brought to the mountains by a unicorn and an echo.
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