You who think of us: they lived only in delusion, Know that we the People of the Book, will never die!
CZESLAW MILOSZAt every sunrise I renounce the doubts of night and greet the new day of a most precious delusion.
More Czeslaw Milosz Quotes
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You see how I try To reach with words What matters most And how I fail.
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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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For a country without a past is nothing, a word That, hardly spoken, loses its meaning, A perishable wall destroyed by flame, An echo of animal emotions.
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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 revolt against one’s environment is usually ‘shame’ of one’s environment.
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When I die, I will see the lining of the world. The other side, beyond bird, mountain, sunset.
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All was taken away from you: white dresses, wings, even existence.
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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 living owe it to those who no longer can speak to tell their story for them.
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It is impossible to communicate to people who have not experienced it the undefinable menace of total rationalism.
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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 a dividend from what you know and what you are.
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Irony is the glory of slaves.
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Men will clutch at illusions when they have nothing else to hold to.
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Our memory is childish and it saves only what we need.
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