What has no shadow has no strength to live.
CZESLAW MILOSZI liked beaches, swimming pools, and clinics for there they were the bone of my bone, flesh of my flesh. I pitied them and myself, but this will not protect me. The word and the thought are over.
More Czeslaw Milosz Quotes
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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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Be young forever, seasons of the earth.
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He 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.
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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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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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When I die, I will see the lining of the world. The other side, beyond bird, mountain, sunset.
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Poetry is news brought to the mountains by a unicorn and an echo.
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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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We have become indifferent to content, and react, not even to form, but to technique, to technical efficiency itself.
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The purpose of poetry is to remind us how difficult it is to remain just one person, for our house is open, there are no keys in the doors, and invisible guests come in and out at will.
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The soul exceeds its circumstances.
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Men will clutch at illusions when they have nothing else to hold to.
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A true opium of the people is a belief in nothingness after death.
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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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I am not my own friend.Time cuts me in two.
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