Language is the only homeland.
CZESLAW MILOSZ
Our memory is childish and it saves only what we need.
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Language is the only homeland.
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Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth.
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When a writer is born into a family, the family is finished.
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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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And if there is no lining to the world? If a thrush on a branch is not a sign, But just a thrush on the branch? If night and day Make no sense following each other?
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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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The purpose of poetry is to remind us / how difficult it is to remain just one person.
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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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The partition separating life from death is so tenuous. The unbelievable fragility of our organism suggests a vision on a screen: a kind of mist condenses itself into a human shape, lasts a moment and scatters.
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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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It is sweet to think I was a companion in an expedition that never ends.
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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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The child who dwells inside us trusts that there are wise men somewhere who know the 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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It is impossible to communicate to people who have not experienced it the undefinable menace of total rationalism.
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