The voice of passion is better than the voice of reason. The passionless cannot change history.
CZESLAW MILOSZI 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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The soul exceeds its circumstances.
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The revolt against one’s environment is usually ‘shame’ of one’s environment.
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All was taken away from you: white dresses, wings, even existence.
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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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What has no shadow has no strength to live.
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I am not my own friend.Time cuts me in two.
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A weak human mercy walks in the corridors of hospitals and is like a half-thawed winter.
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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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The history of my stupidity would fill many volumes.
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Learning To believe you are magnificent. And gradually to discover that you are not magnificent. Enough labor for one human life.
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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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I have no wisdom, no skills, and no faith but I received strength, it tears the world apart. I shall break, a heavy wave, against its shores and a young wave will cover my trace.
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The true enemy of man is generalization.
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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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At every sunrise I renounce the doubts of night and greet the new day of a most precious delusion.
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