I am not my own friend.Time cuts me in two.
CZESLAW MILOSZAnd 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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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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Consciousness even in my sleep changes primary colors. The features of my face melt like a wax doll in the fire. And who can consent to see in the mirror the mere face of man?
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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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Be young forever, seasons of the earth.
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What is poetry which does not save nations or people?
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Yet falling in love is not the same as being able to love.
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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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Poetry is a dividend from what you know and what you are.
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What has no shadow has no strength to live.
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In a room where people unanimously maintain a conspiracy of silence, one word of truth sounds like a pistol shot.
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The soul exceeds its circumstances.
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It is sweet to think I was a companion in an expedition that never ends.
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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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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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Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth.
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