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.
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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When I die, I will see the lining of the world. The other side, beyond bird, mountain, sunset.
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All was taken away from you: white dresses, wings, even existence.
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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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Be young forever, seasons of the earth.
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The soul exceeds its circumstances.
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A true opium of the people is a belief in nothingness after death.
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For a country without a past is nothing, a word That, hardly spoken, loses its meaning, A perishable wall destroyed by flame, An echo of animal emotions.
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Not that I want to be a god or a hero. Just to change into a tree, grow for ages, not hurt anyone.
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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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Only 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.
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Irony is the glory of slaves.
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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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Poetry is news brought to the mountains by a unicorn and an echo.
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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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Poetry is a dividend from what you know and what you are.
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