A true opium of the people is a belief in nothingness after death.
CZESLAW MILOSZEven if that is so, there will remain A word wakened by lips that perish, A tireless messenger who runs and runs Through interstellar fields, through the revolving galaxies, And calls out, protests, screams.
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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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Language is the only homeland.
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All was taken away from you: white dresses, wings, even existence.
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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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Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth.
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Poetry is news brought to the mountains by a unicorn and an echo.
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When I curse Fate, it’s not me, but the earth in me.
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The history of my stupidity would fill many volumes.
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The voice of passion is better than the voice of reason. The passionless cannot change history.
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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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Our memory is childish and it saves only what we need.
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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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In a room where people unanimously maintain a conspiracy of silence, one word of truth sounds like a pistol shot.
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Two attributes of a poet, avidity of the eye and the desire to describe that which he sees.
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Even if that is so, there will remain A word wakened by lips that perish, A tireless messenger who runs and runs Through interstellar fields, through the revolving galaxies, And calls out, protests, screams.
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