When I die, I will see the lining of the world. The other side, beyond bird, mountain, sunset.
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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And if there is no lining to the world? If a thrush on a branch is not a sign, But just a thrush on the branch? If night and day Make no sense following each other?
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What has no shadow has no strength to live.
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All was taken away from you: white dresses, wings, even existence.
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Men will clutch at illusions when they have nothing else to hold to.
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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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I am composed of contradictions, which is why poetry is a better form for me than philosophy.
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I am not my own friend.Time cuts me in two.
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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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A man should not love the moon. An ax should not lose weight in his hand. His garden should smell of rotting apples, And grow a fair amount of nettles.
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I liked beaches, swimming pools, and clinics for there they were the bone of my bone, flesh of my flesh. I pitied them and myself, but this will not protect me. The word and the thought are over.
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The history of my stupidity would fill many volumes.
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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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The voice of passion is better than the voice of reason. The passionless cannot change history.
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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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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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