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The child who dwells inside us trusts that there are wise men somewhere who know the truth.

Czeslaw Milosz

If I am all mankind, are they themselves without me?
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Kind Man Myself
I am not my own friend.Time cuts me in two.
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Friendship Myself Time
The voice of passion is better than the voice of reason. The passionless cannot change history.
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Better History Inspirational Passion Reason Voice
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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Expression Form Generation Himself Inheritance Poet
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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Achievement Allow Finish Oneself Reality Settle Thinking
The true enemy of man is generalization.
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Enemy Generalization Man True
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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God Growth Hero Hurt Transformation
The purpose of poetry is to remind us / how difficult it is to remain just one person.
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Difficult Oneself Person Poetry Purpose Reminder
It is sweet to think I was a companion in an expedition that never ends.
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End Expedition Myself Sweet Thinking
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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Change Earth Memories Present Report Thinking
What is poetry which does not save nations or people?
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Nation People Poetry Save
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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Earth Forget Reason Sparkle Suffering Yourself
A true opium of the people is a belief in nothingness after death.
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Belief Death People True
When a writer is born into a family, the family is finished.
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Born Family Poet Writing
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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Myself Skills Strength Trace Wisdom Young
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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Distant Love Way Yourself

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