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.
CZESLAW MILOSZI 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.
More Czeslaw Milosz Quotes
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It is impossible to communicate to people who have not experienced it the undefinable menace of total rationalism.
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I imagine the earth when I am no more: Women’s dresses, dewy lilacs, a song in the valley. Yet the books will be there on the shelves, well born, Derived from people, but also from radiance, heights.
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Men will clutch at illusions when they have nothing else to hold to.
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Our memory is childish and it saves only what we need.
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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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The history of my stupidity would fill many volumes.
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Poetry is a dividend from what you know and what you are.
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I am composed of contradictions, which is why poetry is a better form for me than philosophy.
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Be young forever, seasons of the earth.
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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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The child who dwells inside us trusts that there are wise men somewhere who know the truth.
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It was only toward the middle of the twentieth century that the inhabitants of many European countries came, in general unpleasantly, to the realization that their fate could be influenced directly by intricate and abstruse books of philosophy.
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Yet falling in love is not the same as being able to love.
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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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The purpose of poetry is to remind us how difficult it is to remain just one person, for our house is open, there are no keys in the doors, and invisible guests come in and out at will.
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