What has no shadow has no strength to live.
CZESLAW MILOSZTwo attributes of a poet, avidity of the eye and the desire to describe that which he sees.
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The revolt against one’s environment is usually ‘shame’ of one’s environment.
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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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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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The partition separating life from death is so tenuous. The unbelievable fragility of our organism suggests a vision on a screen: a kind of mist condenses itself into a human shape, lasts a moment and scatters.
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A true opium of the people is a belief in nothingness after death.
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Irony is the glory of slaves.
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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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I have no wisdom, no skills, and no faith but I received strength, it tears the world apart. I shall break, a heavy wave, against its shores and a young wave will cover my trace.
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Forget the suffering You caused others. Forget the suffering Others caused you. The waters run and run, Springs sparkle and are done, You walk the earth you are forgetting.
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On the day the world ends A bee circles a clover, A fisherman mends a glimmering net.
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Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth.
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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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The soul exceeds its circumstances.
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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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Two attributes of a poet, avidity of the eye and the desire to describe that which he sees.
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