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Do not feel safe. The poet remembers.You can kill one, but another is born.
The words are written down, the deed, the date. — Czeslaw Milosz
Language is the only homeland.
— Czeslaw Milosz
On the day the world ends A bee circles a clover, A fisherman mends a glimmering net.
— Czeslaw Milosz
The history of my stupidity would fill many volumes.
— Czeslaw Milosz
If I am all mankind, are they themselves without me?
— Czeslaw Milosz
When it hurts,' wrote the Polish poet Czeslaw Milosz, 'we return to the banks of certain rivers,
— Olivia Laing
I am composed of contradictions, which is why poetry is a better form for me than philosophy
— Czeslaw Milosz
All of us yearn for the highest wisdom, but we have to rely on ourselves in the end.
— Czeslaw Milosz
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 Milosz
The true enemy of man is generalization.
— Czeslaw Milosz
What is poetry which does not save nations or people?
— Czeslaw Milosz
I've always regretted that I'm made of contradictions. But, if contradiction is impossible to overcome, we have to accept both its ends.
— Czeslaw Milosz
Not to know. Not to remember.With this one hope:
That beyond the River Lethe, there is memory, healed. — Czeslaw Milosz
A weak human mercy walks in the corridors of hospitals and is like a half-thawed winter.
— Czeslaw Milosz
Two attributes of a poet, avidity of the eye and the desire to describe that which he sees.
— Czeslaw Milosz
The voice of passion is better than the voice of reason. The passionless cannot change history.
— Czeslaw Milosz
Not that I want to be a god or a hero. Just to change into a tree, grow for ages, not hurt anyone.
— Czeslaw Milosz
When I curse Fate, it's not me, but the earth in me.
— Czeslaw Milosz
Yet falling in love is not the same as being able to love.
— Czeslaw Milosz
Men will clutch illusions when they have nothing else to hold onto.
— Czeslaw Milosz
It is impossible to communicate to people who have not experienced it the undefinable menace of total rationalism.
— Czeslaw Milosz
The divinization of Man, when one abhors the order of the world as essentially evil, is a risky and self-contradictory venture.
— Czeslaw Milosz
In a room wherepeople unanimously maintain
a conspiracy of silence,
one word of truth
sounds like a pistol shot. — Czeslaw Milosz
Had you been able to guess bits of my destiny,Perhaps you would bear your mediocrity with more ease. — Czeslaw Milosz
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All was taken away from you: white dresses, wings, even existence.
— Czeslaw Milosz