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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
At every sunrise I renounce the doubts of night and greet the new day of a most precious delusion. — 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
Poetry is news brought to the mountains by a unicorn and an echo.
— Czeslaw Milosz
The soul exceeds its circumstances.
— Czeslaw Milosz
LearningTo 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
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
Our memory is childish and it saves only what we need.
— Czeslaw Milosz
Do you know how it is when one wakesat night suddenly and asks,
listening to the pounding heart: what more do you want,
insatiable? — 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
Contradiction is an inseparable part of the human condition, and that suffices as a source of miraculousness.
— 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 die, I will see the lining of the world. The other side, beyond bird, mountain, sunset.
— Czeslaw Milosz
For to exist on the earth is beyond any power to name.
— Czeslaw Milosz
I am not my own friend.Time cuts me in two. — Czeslaw Milosz
When a writer is born into a family, the family is finished.
— 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
The true enemy of man is generalization.
— Czeslaw Milosz
All was taken away from you: white dresses, wings, even existence.
— Czeslaw Milosz
In a room wherepeople 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