Consolation Calm down. Both your sins and your good deeds will be lost in oblivion.
CZESLAW MILOSZFor 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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When I curse Fate, it’s not me, but the earth in me.
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Yet falling in love is not the same as being able to love.
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I am not my own friend.Time cuts me in two.
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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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Poetry is news brought to the mountains by a unicorn and an echo.
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You see how I try To reach with words What matters most And how I fail.
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And if there is no lining to the world? If a thrush on a branch is not a sign, But just a thrush on the branch? If night and day Make no sense following each other?
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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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On the day the world ends A bee circles a clover, A fisherman mends a glimmering net.
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The history of my stupidity would fill many volumes.
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I knew that I would speak in the language of the vanquished No more durable than old customs, family rituals, Christmas tinsel, and once a year the hilarity of carols.
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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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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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The purpose of poetry is to remind us / how difficult it is to remain just one person.
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A true opium of the people is a belief in nothingness after death.
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