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Be young forever, seasons of the earth.

Czeslaw Milosz

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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Awakening Call Lips Protest Run Scream Word
What is poetry which does not save nations or people?
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Nation People Poetry Save
I have defined poetry as a ‘passionate pursuit of the Real.
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Definition Passionate Poet Poetry Pursuit Reality
I 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.
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Bone Flesh Myself Thinking
Be young forever, seasons of the earth.
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Earth Forever Season Young
All of us yearn for the highest wisdom, but we have to rely on ourselves in the end.
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End High Independent Ourselves Wisdom
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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General Oneself Poetry Purpose Reminder
Men will clutch at illusions when they have nothing else to hold to.
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Catch Hold Illusion Man
Yet falling in love is not the same as being able to love.
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Difference Fall Love
The revolt against one’s environment is usually ‘shame’ of one’s environment.
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Environment Oneself Shame
When I curse Fate, it’s not me, but the earth in me.
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Curse Earth Fate Myself
When a writer is born into a family, the family is finished.
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Born Family Poet Writing
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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Branch Each Other Follow Line World
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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Distant Love Way Yourself
You see how I try To reach with words What matters most And how I fail.
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Failure Myself Reach Try
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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