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.
CZESLAW MILOSZHe returns years later, has no demands. He wants only one, most precious thing: To see, purely and simply, without name, Without expectations, fears, or hopes, At the edge where there is no I or not-I.
More Czeslaw Milosz Quotes
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I have defined poetry as a ‘passionate pursuit of the Real.
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Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth. Do not follow those who lie in contempt of reality. Let your lie be even more logical than the truth itself, so the weary travelers may find repose.
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Consolation Calm down. Both your sins and your good deeds will be lost in oblivion.
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The revolt against one’s environment is usually ‘shame’ of one’s environment.
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What has no shadow has no strength to live.
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Be young forever, seasons of the earth.
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Our memory is childish and it saves only what we need.
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If I am all mankind, are they themselves without me?
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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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I liked beaches, swimming pools, and clinics for there they were the bone of my bone, flesh of my flesh. I pitied them and myself, but this will not protect me. The word and the thought are over.
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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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A true opium of the people is a belief in nothingness after death – the huge solace of thinking that for our betrayals, greed, cowardice, murders we are not going to be judged.
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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 is impossible to communicate to people who have not experienced it the undefinable menace of total rationalism.
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The true enemy of man is generalization.
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