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.
CZESLAW MILOSZWhen I curse Fate, it’s not me, but the earth in me.
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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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Do you know how it is when one wakes at night suddenly and asks, listening to the pounding heart: what more do you want, insatiable?
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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.
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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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Be young forever, seasons of the earth.
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When I die, I will see the lining of the world. The other side, beyond bird, mountain, sunset.
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When I curse Fate, it’s not me, but the earth in me.
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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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At every sunrise I renounce the doubts of night and greet the new day of a most precious delusion.
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You see how I try To reach with words What matters most And how I fail.
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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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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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In a room where people unanimously maintain a conspiracy of silence, one word of truth sounds like a pistol shot.
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Every poet depends upon generations who wrote in his native tongue; he inherits styles and forms elaborated by those who lived before him. At the same time, though, he feels that those old means of expression are not adequate to his own experience.
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