What has no shadow has no strength to live.
CZESLAW MILOSZPoetry is a dividend from what you know and what you are.
More Czeslaw Milosz Quotes
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In a room where people unanimously maintain a conspiracy of silence, one word of truth sounds like a pistol shot.
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It was only toward the middle of the twentieth century that the inhabitants of many European countries came, in general unpleasantly, to the realization that their fate could be influenced directly by intricate and abstruse books of philosophy.
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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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At every sunrise I renounce the doubts of night and greet the new day of a most precious delusion.
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I am not my own friend.Time cuts me in two.
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The history of my stupidity would fill many volumes.
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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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All of us yearn for the highest wisdom, but we have to rely on ourselves in the end.
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The revolt against one’s environment is usually ‘shame’ of one’s environment.
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Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth.
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When a writer is born into a family, the family is finished.
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Only a white-haired old man, who would be a prophet Yet is not a prophet, for he’s much too busy, Repeats while he binds his tomatoes: No other end of the world will there be, No other end of the world will there be.
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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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When I die, I will see the lining of the world. The other side, beyond bird, mountain, sunset.
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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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