At every sunrise I renounce the doubts of night and greet the new day of a most precious delusion.
CZESLAW MILOSZThe history of my stupidity would fill many volumes.
More Czeslaw Milosz Quotes
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Consolation Calm down. Both your sins and your good deeds will be lost in oblivion.
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From life, from the apple cut by the flaming knife, what grain will be saved? My son, believe me, nothing remains, Only adult toil, the furrow of fate in the palm. Only toil, Nothing more.
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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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A true opium of the people is a belief in nothingness after death.
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I am not my own friend.Time cuts me in two.
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Human material seems to have one major defect: it does not like to be considered merely as human material. It finds it hard to endure the feeling that it must resign itself to passive acceptance of changes introduced from above.
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What is poetry which does not save nations or people?
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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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I have defined poetry as a ‘passionate pursuit of the Real.
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Be young forever, seasons of the earth.
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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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If I am all mankind, are they themselves without me?
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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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Poetry is news brought to the mountains by a unicorn and an echo.
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The living owe it to those who no longer can speak to tell their story for them.
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