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.
CZESLAW MILOSZIt is impossible to communicate to people who have not experienced it the undefinable menace of total rationalism.
More Czeslaw Milosz Quotes
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The voice of passion is better than the voice of reason. The passionless cannot change history.
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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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What is poetry which does not save nations or people?
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I am composed of contradictions, which is why poetry is a better form for me than philosophy.
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It’s true that what is morbid is highly valued today, and so you may think that I am only joking or that I’ve devised just one more means of praising Art with the help of irony.
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It is sweet to think I was a companion in an expedition that never ends.
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What has no shadow has no strength to live.
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Poetry is a dividend from what you know and what you are.
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Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth.
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Men will clutch at illusions when they have nothing else to hold to.
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All was taken away from you: white dresses, wings, even existence.
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A true opium of the people is a belief in nothingness after death.
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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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The living owe it to those who no longer can speak to tell their story for them.
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All of us yearn for the highest wisdom, but we have to rely on ourselves in the end.
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