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 MILOSZPoetry is a dividend from what you know and what you are.
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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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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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The child who dwells inside us trusts that there are wise men somewhere who know the truth.
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Learning To believe you are magnificent. And gradually to discover that you are not magnificent. Enough labor for one human life.
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A true opium of the people is a belief in nothingness after death.
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The purpose of poetry is to remind us / how difficult it is to remain just one person.
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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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You see how I try To reach with words What matters most And how I fail.
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When I curse Fate, it’s not me, but the earth in me.
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Love means to look at yourself The way one looks at distant things For you are only one thing among many.
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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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The voice of passion is better than the voice of reason. The passionless cannot change history.
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Men will clutch at illusions when they have nothing else to hold to.
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Language is the only homeland.
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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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