Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth.
CZESLAW MILOSZWhat is poetry which does not save nations or people?
More Czeslaw Milosz Quotes
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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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A true opium of the people is a belief in nothingness after death – the huge solace of thinking that for our betrayals, greed, cowardice, murders we are not going to be judged.
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Poetry is news brought to the mountains by a unicorn and an echo.
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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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When I die, I will see the lining of the world. The other side, beyond bird, mountain, sunset.
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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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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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When I curse Fate, it’s not me, but the earth in me.
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If I am all mankind, are they themselves without me?
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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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Be young forever, seasons of the earth.
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It was only toward the middle of the twentieth century that the inhabitants of many European countries came, in general unpleasantly, to the realization that their fate could be influenced directly by intricate and abstruse books of philosophy.
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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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On the day the world ends A bee circles a clover, A fisherman mends a glimmering net.
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The voice of passion is better than the voice of reason. The passionless cannot change history.
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