He returns years later, has no demands. He wants only one, most precious thing: To see, purely and simply, without name, Without expectations, fears, or hopes, At the edge where there is no I or not-I.
CZESLAW MILOSZAll of us yearn for the highest wisdom, but we have to rely on ourselves in the end.
More Czeslaw Milosz Quotes
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The purpose of poetry is to remind us how difficult it is to remain just one person, for our house is open, there are no keys in the doors, and invisible guests come in and out at will.
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If I am all mankind, are they themselves without me?
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Consolation Calm down. Both your sins and your good deeds will be lost in oblivion.
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The voice of passion is better than the voice of reason. The passionless cannot change history.
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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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The soul exceeds its circumstances.
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Be young forever, seasons of the earth.
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It’s true that what is morbid is highly valued today, and so you may think that I am only joking or that I’ve devised just one more means of praising Art with the help of irony.
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Our memory is childish and it saves only what we need.
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I have defined poetry as a ‘passionate pursuit of the Real.
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Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of 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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And now I am ready to keep running When the sun rises beyond the borderlands of death. I already see mountain ridges in the heavenly forest Where, beyond every essence, a new essence awaits.
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Poetry is a dividend from what you know and what you are.
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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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