The death of a man is like the fall of a mighty nation That had valiant armies, captains, and prophets, And wealthy ports and ships all over the seas.
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.
More Czeslaw Milosz Quotes
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Poetry is a dividend from what you know and what you are.
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Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth.
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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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Be young forever, seasons of the earth.
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The purpose of poetry is to remind us how difficult it is to remain just one person, for our house is open, there are no keys in the doors, and invisible guests come in and out at will.
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When I die, I will see the lining of the world. The other side, beyond bird, mountain, sunset.
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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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When I curse Fate, it’s not me, but the earth in me.
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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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Poetry is news brought to the mountains by a unicorn and an echo.
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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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We have become indifferent to content, and react, not even to form, but to technique, to technical efficiency itself.
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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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All of us yearn for the highest wisdom, but we have to rely on ourselves in the end.
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