The voice of passion is better than the voice of reason. The passionless cannot change history.
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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A true opium of the people is a belief in nothingness after death.
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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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Our memory is childish and it saves only what we need.
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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.
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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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Men will clutch at illusions when they have nothing else to hold to.
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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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When a writer is born into a family, the family is finished.
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I am composed of contradictions, which is why poetry is a better form for me than philosophy.
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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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I knew that I would speak in the language of the vanquished No more durable than old customs, family rituals, Christmas tinsel, and once a year the hilarity of carols.
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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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I liked beaches, swimming pools, and clinics for there they were the bone of my bone, flesh of my flesh. I pitied them and myself, but this will not protect me. The word and the thought are over.
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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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It is sweet to think I was a companion in an expedition that never ends.
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