A true opium of the people is a belief in nothingness after death.
CZESLAW MILOSZI am not my own friend.Time cuts me in two.
More Czeslaw Milosz Quotes
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It is impossible to communicate to people who have not experienced it the undefinable menace of total rationalism.
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It is sweet to think I was a companion in an expedition that never ends.
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The soul exceeds its circumstances.
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You see how I try To reach with words What matters most And how I fail.
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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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Poetry is news brought to the mountains by a unicorn and an echo.
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Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth. Do not follow those who lie in contempt of reality. Let your lie be even more logical than the truth itself, so the weary travelers may find repose.
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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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I am composed of contradictions, which is why poetry is a better form for me than philosophy.
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The revolt against one’s environment is usually ‘shame’ of one’s environment.
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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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I am not my own friend.Time cuts me in two.
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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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I have defined poetry as a ‘passionate pursuit of the Real.
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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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