And now I am ready to keep running When the sun rises beyond the borderlands of death. I already see mountain ridges in the heavenly forest Where, beyond every essence, a new essence awaits.
CZESLAW MILOSZI am composed of contradictions, which is why poetry is a better form for me than philosophy.
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Irony is the glory of slaves.
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Be young forever, seasons of the earth.
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Poetry is news brought to the mountains by a unicorn and an echo.
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I have defined poetry as a ‘passionate pursuit of the Real.
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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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The purpose of poetry is to remind us / how difficult it is to remain just one person.
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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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You see how I try To reach with words What matters most And how I fail.
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Poetry is a dividend from what you know and what you are.
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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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At every sunrise I renounce the doubts of night and greet the new day of a most precious delusion.
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The voice of passion is better than the voice of reason. The passionless cannot change history.
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I am composed of contradictions, which is why poetry is a better form for me than philosophy.
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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 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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