I’ve always regretted that I’m made of contradictions. But, if contradiction is impossible to overcome, we have to accept both its ends.
CZESLAW MILOSZI’ve always regretted that I’m made of contradictions. But, if contradiction is impossible to overcome, we have to accept both its ends.
CZESLAW MILOSZA true opium of the people is a belief in nothingness after death.
CZESLAW MILOSZAll of us yearn for the highest wisdom, but we have to rely on ourselves in the end.
CZESLAW MILOSZPoetry is a dividend from what you know and what you are.
CZESLAW MILOSZThe purpose of poetry is to remind us / how difficult it is to remain just one person.
CZESLAW MILOSZIt is impossible to communicate to people who have not experienced it the undefinable menace of total rationalism.
CZESLAW MILOSZWhat is poetry which does not save nations or people?
CZESLAW MILOSZHe 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.
CZESLAW MILOSZA 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.
CZESLAW MILOSZHuman 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.
CZESLAW MILOSZWhat has no shadow has no strength to live.
CZESLAW MILOSZTwo attributes of a poet, avidity of the eye and the desire to describe that which he sees.
CZESLAW MILOSZWhen a writer is born into a family, the family is finished.
CZESLAW MILOSZConsolation Calm down. Both your sins and your good deeds will be lost in oblivion.
CZESLAW MILOSZWe have become indifferent to content, and react, not even to form, but to technique, to technical efficiency itself.
CZESLAW MILOSZWhen I curse Fate, it’s not me, but the earth in me.
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