If I am all mankind, are they themselves without me?
CZESLAW MILOSZAnd now I am ready to keep running When the sun rises beyond the borderlands of death. I already see mountain ridges in the heavenly forest Where, beyond every essence, a new essence awaits.
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What is poetry which does not save nations or people?
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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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You see how I try To reach with words What matters most And how I fail.
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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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The child who dwells inside us trusts that there are wise men somewhere who know the truth.
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Yet falling in love is not the same as being able to love.
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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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I’ve always regretted that I’m made of contradictions. But, if contradiction is impossible to overcome, we have to accept both its ends.
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Love means to look at yourself The way one looks at distant things For you are only one thing among many.
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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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You who think of us: they lived only in delusion, Know that we the People of the Book, will never die!
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He 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.
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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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What has no shadow has no strength to live.
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Human material seems to have one major defect: it does not like to be considered merely as human material. It finds it hard to endure the feeling that it must resign itself to passive acceptance of changes introduced from above.
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