It’s true that what is morbid is highly valued today, and so you may think that I am only joking or that I’ve devised just one more means of praising Art with the help of irony.
CZESLAW MILOSZConsciousness even in my sleep changes primary colors. The features of my face melt like a wax doll in the fire. And who can consent to see in the mirror the mere face of man?
More Czeslaw Milosz Quotes
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Be young forever, seasons of the earth.
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What has no shadow has no strength to live.
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Poetry is a dividend from what you know and what you are.
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All of us yearn for the highest wisdom, but we have to rely on ourselves in the end.
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A true opium of the people is a belief in nothingness after death.
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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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Do not feel safe. The poet remembers. You can kill one, but another is born. The words are written down, the deed, the date.
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The voice of passion is better than the voice of reason. The passionless cannot change history.
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Poetry is news brought to the mountains by a unicorn and an echo.
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I am not my own friend.Time cuts me in two.
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Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth.
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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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The living owe it to those who no longer can speak to tell their story for them.
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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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