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What is poetry which does not save nations or people?

Czeslaw Milosz

On the day the world ends A bee circles a clover, A fisherman mends a glimmering net.
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Circle Day End Repair World
I have defined poetry as a ‘passionate pursuit of the Real.
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Definition Passionate Poet Poetry Pursuit Reality
For a country without a past is nothing, a word That, hardly spoken, loses its meaning, A perishable wall destroyed by flame, An echo of animal emotions.
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Animal Country Destroy Flame Hard Past Speak Word
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
The living owe it to those who no longer can speak to tell their story for them.
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Live Speak Story Talk Tribute
The revolt against one’s environment is usually ‘shame’ of one’s environment.
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Environment Oneself Shame
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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Break Death Kind Life Moments Partition Separate Vision
I 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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Book Born Imagination Myself People Radiant Woman
Irony is the glory of slaves.
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Glory Irony One Liner Slave
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
Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth.
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Growth Small Truth Yourself
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
Yet falling in love is not the same as being able to love.
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Difference Fall Love
What is poetry which does not save nations or people?
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Nation People Poetry Save
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
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

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