What is poetry which does not save nations or people?
CZESLAW MILOSZWhat is poetry which does not save nations or people?
CZESLAW MILOSZAt every sunrise I renounce the doubts of night and greet the new day of a most precious delusion.
CZESLAW MILOSZConsciousness even in my sleep changes primary colors. The features of my face melt like a wax doll in the fire. And who can consent to see in the mirror the mere face of man?
CZESLAW MILOSZConsolation Calm down. Both your sins and your good deeds will be lost in oblivion.
CZESLAW MILOSZPoetry is a dividend from what you know and what you are.
CZESLAW MILOSZIn a room where people unanimously maintain a conspiracy of silence, one word of truth sounds like a pistol shot.
CZESLAW MILOSZWhen I curse Fate, it’s not me, but the earth in me.
CZESLAW MILOSZAll was taken away from you: white dresses, wings, even existence.
CZESLAW MILOSZA weak human mercy walks in the corridors of hospitals and is like a half-thawed winter.
CZESLAW MILOSZNot that I want to be a god or a hero. Just to change into a tree, grow for ages, not hurt anyone.
CZESLAW MILOSZTwo attributes of a poet, avidity of the eye and the desire to describe that which he sees.
CZESLAW MILOSZI 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.
CZESLAW MILOSZI am not my own friend.Time cuts me in two.
CZESLAW MILOSZOn the day the world ends A bee circles a clover, A fisherman mends a glimmering net.
CZESLAW MILOSZThe purpose of poetry is to remind us / how difficult it is to remain just one person.
CZESLAW MILOSZThe voice of passion is better than the voice of reason. The passionless cannot change history.
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