A weak human mercy walks in the corridors of hospitals and is like a half-thawed winter.
CZESLAW MILOSZGrow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth. Do not follow those who lie in contempt of reality. Let your lie be even more logical than the truth itself, so the weary travelers may find repose.
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Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth. Do not follow those who lie in contempt of reality. Let your lie be even more logical than the truth itself, so the weary travelers may find repose.
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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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What is poetry which does not save nations or people?
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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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Poetry is a dividend from what you know and what you are.
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The true enemy of man is generalization.
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What has no shadow has no strength to live.
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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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You see how I try To reach with words What matters most And how I fail.
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The revolt against one’s environment is usually ‘shame’ of one’s environment.
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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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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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Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth.
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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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Yet falling in love is not the same as being able to love.
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