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To tell the truth we should not exist. We, not any collective plural, just you and me. — Czeslaw Milosz

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

Irony is the glory of slaves. — Czeslaw Milosz

Language is the only homeland. — Czeslaw Milosz

You who think of us: they lived only in delusion ... Know that we the People of the Book, will never die! — 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

I have defined poetry as a 'passionate pursuit of the Real. — Czeslaw Milosz

If I am all mankind, are they themselves without me? — Czeslaw Milosz

We and the flowers throw shadows on the earth.
What has no shadow has no strength to live — Czeslaw Milosz

When it hurts,' wrote the Polish poet Czeslaw Milosz, 'we return to the banks of certain rivers, — Olivia Laing

The living owe it to those who no longer can speak to tell their story for them. — Czeslaw Milosz

You see how I try To reach with words What matters most And how I fail. — Czeslaw Milosz

At every sunrise I renounce the doubts of night and greet the new
day of a most precious delusion. — Czeslaw Milosz

The revolt against one's environment is usually 'shame' of one's environment. — Czeslaw Milosz

I am composed of contradictions, which is why poetry is a better form for me than philosophy — Czeslaw Milosz

Of all things broken and lost, porcelain troubles me most. — Czeslaw Milosz

The child who dwells inside us trusts that there are wise men somewhere who know the truth. — Czeslaw Milosz

All of us yearn for the highest wisdom, but we have to rely on ourselves in the end. — Czeslaw Milosz

When a writer is born into a family, the family is finished. — Czeslaw Milosz

The soul exceeds its circumstances. — 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

Learning
To believe you are magnificent. And gradually to discover that you are not magnificent. Enough labor for one human life. — Czeslaw Milosz

Poetry is an attempt to penetrate the dense reality to find a place where the simplest things look as new as through the eyes of a child. — Czeslaw Milosz

Love means to learn to look at yourself the way one looks at distant things for you are only one thing among many. — Czeslaw Milosz

Our memory is childish and it saves only what we need. — Czeslaw Milosz

A man should not love the moon. An ax should not lose weight in his hand. His garden should smell of rotting apples And grow a fair amount of nettles. — Czeslaw Milosz

When I die, I will see the lining of the world. The other side, beyond bird, mountain, sunset. — Czeslaw Milosz

Do you know how it is when one wakes
at night suddenly and asks,
listening to the pounding heart: what more do you want,
insatiable? — Czeslaw Milosz

Poetry is news brought to the mountains by a unicorn and an echo. — Czeslaw Milosz

Contradiction is an inseparable part of the human condition, and that suffices as a source of miraculousness. — Czeslaw Milosz

I am not my own friend.
Time cuts me in two. — Czeslaw Milosz

For to exist on the earth is beyond any power to name. — Czeslaw Milosz

Poetry is a dividend from what you know and what you are. — Czeslaw Milosz

Consolation
Calm down. Both your sins and your good deeds will be lost in oblivion. — Czeslaw Milosz

If the world is divided between Fascism and Communism, obviously Fascism must lose since it is the last, desperate refuge of the bourgeoisie — Czeslaw Milosz

Be young forever, seasons of the earth. — Czeslaw Milosz

When I curse Fate, it's not me, but the earth in me. — 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

Had you been able to guess bits of my destiny,
Perhaps you would bear your mediocrity with more ease. — Czeslaw Milosz

It is sweet to think I was a companion in an expedition that never ends — Czeslaw Milosz

The true enemy of man is generalization. — Czeslaw Milosz

All was taken away from you: white dresses, wings, even existence. — Czeslaw Milosz

Poetry to [Milosz], then, was not so much a weapon as a witness against evil. — Leonard Nathan

In a room where
people unanimously maintain
a conspiracy of silence,
one word of truth
sounds like a pistol shot. — 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

It is impossible to communicate to people who have not experienced it the undefinable menace of total rationalism. — Czeslaw Milosz

Men will clutch illusions when they have nothing else to hold onto. — Czeslaw Milosz

Yet falling in love is not the same as being able to love. — Czeslaw Milosz

Men will clutch at illusions when they have nothing else to hold to. — 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

The voice of passion is better than the voice of reason. The passionless cannot change history. — Czeslaw Milosz

Two attributes of a poet, avidity of the eye and the desire to describe that which he sees. — Czeslaw Milosz

A weak human mercy walks in the corridors of hospitals and is like a half-thawed winter. — Czeslaw Milosz

Not to know. Not to remember.
With this one hope:
That beyond the River Lethe, there is memory, healed. — Czeslaw Milosz

What is poetry which does not save nations or people? — Czeslaw Milosz

What is not pronounced tends to nonexistence. — Czeslaw Milosz

What is this enigmatic impulse that does not allow one to settle down in the achieved, the finished? I think it is a quest for reality. — Czeslaw Milosz

The real, by which I mean God, continues to remain unfathomable. — Czeslaw Milosz

We have become indifferent to content, and react, not even to form, but to technique, to technical efficiency itself. — Czeslaw Milosz

Solitude, my mother, tell me my life again. — Oscar Milosz