When a writer is born into a family, the family is finished.
CZESLAW MILOSZTwo attributes of a poet, avidity of the eye and the desire to describe that which he sees.
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What is poetry which does not save nations or people?
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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 history of my stupidity would fill many volumes.
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I am not my own friend.Time cuts me in two.
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Men will clutch at illusions when they have nothing else to hold to.
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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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Poetry is a dividend from what you know and what you are.
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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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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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At every sunrise I renounce the doubts of night and greet the new day of a most precious delusion.
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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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The living owe it to those who no longer can speak to tell their story for them.
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Consolation Calm down. Both your sins and your good deeds will be lost in oblivion.
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I knew that I would speak in the language of the vanquished No more durable than old customs, family rituals, Christmas tinsel, and once a year the hilarity of carols.
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