When a writer is born into a family, the family is finished.
CZESLAW MILOSZOur memory is childish and it saves only what we need.
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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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Two attributes of a poet, avidity of the eye and the desire to describe that which he sees.
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The voice of passion is better than the voice of reason. The passionless cannot change history.
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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.
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Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth.
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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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From life, from the apple cut by the flaming knife, what grain will be saved? My son, believe me, nothing remains, Only adult toil, the furrow of fate in the palm. Only toil, Nothing more.
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What has no shadow has no strength to live.
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Consciousness 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?
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I have defined poetry as a ‘passionate pursuit of the Real.
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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.
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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 revolt against one’s environment is usually ‘shame’ of one’s environment.
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It is sweet to think I was a companion in an expedition that never ends.
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Be young forever, seasons of the earth.
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