Poetry is a dividend from what you know and what you are.
CZESLAW MILOSZI am not my own friend.Time cuts me in two.
More Czeslaw Milosz Quotes
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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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Consciousness even in my sleep changes primary colors. The features of my face melt like a wax doll in the fire. And who can consent to see in the mirror the mere face of man?
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The purpose of poetry is to remind us / how difficult it is to remain just one person.
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You see how I try To reach with words What matters most And how I fail.
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It is sweet to think I was a companion in an expedition that never ends.
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I have defined poetry as a ‘passionate pursuit of the Real.
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Language is the only homeland.
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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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Be young forever, seasons of the earth.
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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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The soul exceeds its circumstances.
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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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Do you know how it is when one wakes at night suddenly and asks, listening to the pounding heart: what more do you want, insatiable?
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When a writer is born into a family, the family is finished.
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Men will clutch at illusions when they have nothing else to hold to.
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