Forget the suffering You caused others. Forget the suffering Others caused you. The waters run and run, Springs sparkle and are done, You walk the earth you are forgetting.
CZESLAW MILOSZLanguage is the only homeland.
More Czeslaw Milosz Quotes
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When I curse Fate, it’s not me, but the earth in me.
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A true opium of the people is a belief in nothingness after death.
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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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What has no shadow has no strength to live.
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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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Be young forever, seasons of the earth.
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The revolt against one’s environment is usually ‘shame’ of one’s environment.
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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 true enemy of man is generalization.
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A true opium of the people is a belief in nothingness after death – the huge solace of thinking that for our betrayals, greed, cowardice, murders we are not going to be judged.
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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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If I am all mankind, are they themselves without me?
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I am not my own friend.Time cuts me in two.
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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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I was left behind with the immensity of existing things. A sponge, suffering because it cannot saturate itself; a river, suffering because reflections of clouds and trees are not clouds and trees.
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