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

Czeslaw Milosz

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Czeslaw Milosz
Age: 93 †
Born: 1911
Born: June 30
Died: 2004
Died: August 14
Diplomat
Essayist
Pedagogue
Poet
Translator
University Teacher
Writer
Clarksburg
West Virginia
Miłosz
Czelaw Milosz
Living
Speak
Tell
Stories
Remembrance
Longer
Story

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The history of my stupidity would fill many volumes.
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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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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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You see how I try To reach with words What matters most And how I fail.
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Consciousness even in my sleep changes primary colors. The features of my face melt like a wax doll in the fire. And who can consent to see in the mirror the mere face of man?
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I imagine the earth when I am no more: Women's dresses, dewy lilacs, a song in the valley. Yet the books will be there on the shelves, well born, Derived from people, but also from radiance, heights.
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When I curse Fate, it's not me, but the earth in me.
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What is poetry which does not save nations or people?
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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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Language is the only homeland.
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I was left behind with the immensity of existing things. A sponge, suffering because it cannot saturate itself a river, suffering because reflections of clouds and trees are not clouds and trees.
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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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Do not feel safe. The poet remembers. You can kill one, but another is born. The words are written down, the deed, the date.
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It was only toward the middle of the twentieth century that the inhabitants of many European countries came, in general unpleasantly, to the realization that their fate could be influenced directly by intricate and abstruse books of philosophy.
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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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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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