What is poetry which does not save nations or people?
CZESLAW MILOSZLove means to look at yourself The way one looks at distant things For you are only one thing among many.
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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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The revolt against one’s environment is usually ‘shame’ of one’s environment.
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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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When I curse Fate, it’s not me, but the earth in me.
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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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When a writer is born into a family, the family is finished.
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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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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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Be young forever, seasons of the earth.
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I have defined poetry as a ‘passionate pursuit of the Real.
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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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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 think that I am here, on this earth, to present a report on it, but to whom I don’t know. As if I were sent so that whatever takes place has meaning because it changes into memory.
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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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The true enemy of man is generalization.
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