When I die, I will see the lining of the world. The other side, beyond bird, mountain, sunset.
CZESLAW MILOSZA 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.
More Czeslaw Milosz Quotes
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Be young forever, seasons of the earth.
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Poetry is a dividend from what you know and what you are.
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Poetry is news brought to the mountains by a unicorn and an echo.
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Our memory is childish and it saves only what we need.
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What is this enigmatic impulse that does not allow one to settle down in the achieved, the finished? I think it is a quest for reality.
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For a country without a past is nothing, a word That, hardly spoken, loses its meaning, A perishable wall destroyed by flame, An echo of animal emotions.
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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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It is sweet to think I was a companion in an expedition that never ends.
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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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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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All was taken away from you: white dresses, wings, even existence.
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The history of my stupidity would fill many volumes.
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I have defined poetry as a ‘passionate pursuit of the Real.
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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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I am not my own friend.Time cuts me in two.
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