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Czeslaw Milosz Inspirational Quotes (47)

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They used to pour millet on graves or poppy seeds To feed the dead who would come disguised as birds. I put this book here for you, who once lived So that you should visit us no more.
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The history of my stupidity would fill many volumes.
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All was taken away from you: white dresses, wings, even existence.
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Men will clutch at illusions when they have nothing else to hold to.
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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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From life, from the apple cut by the flaming knife, what grain will be saved? My son, believe me, nothing remains, Only adult toil, the furrow of fate in the palm. Only toil, Nothing more.
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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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It is sweet to think I was a companion in an expedition that never ends
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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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When I curse Fate, it's not me, but the earth in me.
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All of us yearn for the highest wisdom, but we have to rely on ourselves in the end.
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Human reason is beautiful and invincible. No bars, no barbed wire, no pulping of books, No sentence of banishment can prevail against it. It puts what should be above things as they are. It does not know Jew from Greek nor slave from master.
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On the day the world ends A bee circles a clover, A fisherman mends a glimmering net.
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The true enemy of man is generalization.
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In a room where people unanimously maintain a conspiracy of silence, one word of truth sounds like a pistol shot.
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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.
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What is poetry which does not save nations or people?
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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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For a country without a past is nothing, a word That, hardly spoken, loses its meaning, A perishable wall destroyed by flame, An echo of animal emotions.
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You see how I try To reach with words What matters most And how I fail.
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The revolt against one's environment is usually 'shame' of one's environment.
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A day so happy. Fog lifted early. I worked in the garden. Hummingbirds were stopping over honeysuckle flowers. There was no thing on earth I wanted to possess. I know no one worth my envying him.
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The soul exceeds its circumstances.
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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.
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