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.
CZESLAW MILOSZOnly a white-haired old man, who would be a prophet Yet is not a prophet, for he’s much too busy, Repeats while he binds his tomatoes: No other end of the world will there be, No other end of the world will there be.
More Czeslaw Milosz Quotes
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What has no shadow has no strength to live.
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We have become indifferent to content, and react, not even to form, but to technique, to technical efficiency itself.
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Yet falling in love is not the same as being able to love.
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A true opium of the people is a belief in nothingness after death.
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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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Irony is the glory of slaves.
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Language is the only homeland.
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It is sweet to think I was a companion in an expedition that never ends.
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Two attributes of a poet, avidity of the eye and the desire to describe that which he sees.
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The purpose of poetry is to remind us / how difficult it is to remain just one person.
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You see how I try To reach with words What matters most And how I fail.
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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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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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Consciousness 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?
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I am not my own friend.Time cuts me in two.
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