It is sweet to think I was a companion in an expedition that never ends.
CZESLAW MILOSZDo not feel safe. The poet remembers. You can kill one, but another is born. The words are written down, the deed, the date.
More Czeslaw Milosz Quotes
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What has no shadow has no strength to live.
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What is poetry which does not save nations or people?
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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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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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I imagine the earth when I am no more: Women’s dresses, dewy lilacs, a song in the valley. Yet the books will be there on the shelves, well born, Derived from people, but also from radiance, heights.
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Our memory is childish and it saves only what we need.
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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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A true opium of the people is a belief in nothingness after death.
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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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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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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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The living owe it to those who no longer can speak to tell their story for them.
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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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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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Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth.
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