The true enemy of man is generalization.
CZESLAW MILOSZThe revolt against one’s environment is usually ‘shame’ of one’s environment.
More Czeslaw Milosz Quotes
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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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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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Not that I want to be a god or a hero. Just to change into a tree, grow for ages, not hurt anyone.
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I’ve always regretted that I’m made of contradictions. But, if contradiction is impossible to overcome, we have to accept both its ends.
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All was taken away from you: white dresses, wings, even existence.
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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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What has no shadow has no strength to live.
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It’s true that what is morbid is highly valued today, and so you may think that I am only joking or that I’ve devised just one more means of praising Art with the help of irony.
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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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Only a white-haired old man, who would be a prophet Yet is not a prophet, for he’s much too busy, Repeats while he binds his tomatoes: No other end of the world will there be, No other end of the world will there be.
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Yet falling in love is not the same as being able to love.
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Men will clutch at illusions when they have nothing else to hold to.
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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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When a writer is born into a family, the family is finished.
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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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