The purpose of poetry is to remind us / how difficult it is to remain just one person.
CZESLAW MILOSZIrony is the glory of slaves.
More Czeslaw Milosz Quotes
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Language is the only homeland.
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At every sunrise I renounce the doubts of night and greet the new day of a most precious delusion.
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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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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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A weak human mercy walks in the corridors of hospitals and is like a half-thawed winter.
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All was taken away from you: white dresses, wings, even existence.
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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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Men will clutch at illusions when they have nothing else to hold to.
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When I curse Fate, it’s not me, but the earth in me.
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And now I am ready to keep running When the sun rises beyond the borderlands of death. I already see mountain ridges in the heavenly forest Where, beyond every essence, a new essence awaits.
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Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth.
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Forget the suffering You caused others. Forget the suffering Others caused you. The waters run and run, Springs sparkle and are done, You walk the earth you are forgetting.
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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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On the day the world ends A bee circles a clover, A fisherman mends a glimmering net.
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It is sweet to think I was a companion in an expedition that never ends.
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