The soul exceeds its circumstances.
CZESLAW MILOSZYou who think of us: they lived only in delusion, Know that we the People of the Book, will never die!
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I have defined poetry as a ‘passionate pursuit of the Real.
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What is this enigmatic impulse that does not allow one to settle down in the achieved, the finished? I think it is a quest for reality.
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The partition separating life from death is so tenuous. The unbelievable fragility of our organism suggests a vision on a screen: a kind of mist condenses itself into a human shape, lasts a moment and scatters.
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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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Two attributes of a poet, avidity of the eye and the desire to describe that which he sees.
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Learning To believe you are magnificent. And gradually to discover that you are not magnificent. Enough labor for one human life.
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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.
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If I am all mankind, are they themselves without me?
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Even if that is so, there will remain A word wakened by lips that perish, A tireless messenger who runs and runs Through interstellar fields, through the revolving galaxies, And calls out, protests, screams.
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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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On the day the world ends A bee circles a clover, A fisherman mends a glimmering net.
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Poetry is a dividend from what you know and what you are.
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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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Language is the only homeland.
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The revolt against one’s environment is usually ‘shame’ of one’s environment.
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