Love means to look at yourself The way one looks at distant things For you are only one thing among many.
CZESLAW MILOSZ
The voice of passion is better than the voice of reason. The passionless cannot change history.
More Czeslaw Milosz Quotes
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What is poetry which does not save nations or people?
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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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Learning To believe you are magnificent. And gradually to discover that you are not magnificent. Enough labor for one human life.
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On the day the world ends A bee circles a clover, A fisherman mends a glimmering net.
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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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A true opium of the people is a belief in nothingness after death.
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The revolt against one’s environment is usually ‘shame’ of one’s environment.
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I have no wisdom, no skills, and no faith but I received strength, it tears the world apart. I shall break, a heavy wave, against its shores and a young wave will cover my trace.
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Men will clutch at illusions when they have nothing else to hold to.
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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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I knew that I would speak in the language of the vanquished No more durable than old customs, family rituals, Christmas tinsel, and once a year the hilarity of carols.
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What is this enigmatic impulse that does not allow one to settle down in the achieved, the finished? I think it is a quest for reality.
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Our memory is childish and it saves only what we need.
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Yet falling in love is not the same as being able to love.
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When I curse Fate, it’s not me, but the earth in me.
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