Two attributes of a poet, avidity of the eye and the desire to describe that which he sees.
CZESLAW MILOSZWe have become indifferent to content, and react, not even to form, but to technique, to technical efficiency itself.
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It is sweet to think I was a companion in an expedition that never ends.
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He returns years later, has no demands. He wants only one, most precious thing: To see, purely and simply, without name, Without expectations, fears, or hopes, At the edge where there is no I or not-I.
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The soul exceeds its circumstances.
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What has no shadow has no strength to live.
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Our memory is childish and it saves only what we need.
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Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth.
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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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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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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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The child who dwells inside us trusts that there are wise men somewhere who know the truth.
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Irony is the glory of slaves.
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You who think of us: they lived only in delusion, Know that we the People of the Book, will never die!
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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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Yet falling in love is not the same as being able to love.
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