What has no shadow has no strength to live.
CZESLAW MILOSZA true opium of the people is a belief in nothingness after death.
More Czeslaw Milosz Quotes
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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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I was left behind with the immensity of existing things. A sponge, suffering because it cannot saturate itself; a river, suffering because reflections of clouds and trees are not clouds and trees.
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The death of a man is like the fall of a mighty nation That had valiant armies, captains, and prophets, And wealthy ports and ships all over the seas.
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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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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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Be young forever, seasons of the earth.
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Poetry is news brought to the mountains by a unicorn and an echo.
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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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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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I am not my own friend.Time cuts me in two.
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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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The child who dwells inside us trusts that there are wise men somewhere who know the truth.
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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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You who think of us: they lived only in delusion, Know that we the People of the Book, will never die!
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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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