Irony is the glory of slaves.
CZESLAW MILOSZHuman material seems to have one major defect: it does not like to be considered merely as human material. It finds it hard to endure the feeling that it must resign itself to passive acceptance of changes introduced from above.
More Czeslaw Milosz Quotes
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The soul exceeds its circumstances.
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Not that I want to be a god or a hero. Just to change into a tree, grow for ages, not hurt anyone.
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Men will clutch at illusions when they have nothing else to hold to.
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Consolation Calm down. Both your sins and your good deeds will be lost in oblivion.
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All was taken away from you: white dresses, wings, even existence.
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Every poet depends upon generations who wrote in his native tongue; he inherits styles and forms elaborated by those who lived before him. At the same time, though, he feels that those old means of expression are not adequate to his own experience.
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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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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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Poetry is news brought to the mountains by a unicorn and an echo.
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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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When I die, I will see the lining of the world. The other side, beyond bird, mountain, sunset.
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The true enemy of man is generalization.
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Even if that is so, there will remain A word wakened by lips that perish, A tireless messenger who runs and runs Through interstellar fields, through the revolving galaxies, And calls out, protests, screams.
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It’s true that what is morbid is highly valued today, and so you may think that I am only joking or that I’ve devised just one more means of praising Art with the help of irony.
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A true opium of the people is a belief in nothingness after death – the huge solace of thinking that for our betrayals, greed, cowardice, murders we are not going to be judged.
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