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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 child who dwells inside us trusts that there are wise men somewhere who know the truth.
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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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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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All of us yearn for the highest wisdom, but we have to rely on ourselves in the end.
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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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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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If I am all mankind, are they themselves without me?
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I have no wisdom, no skills, and no faith but I received strength, it tears the world apart. I shall break, a heavy wave, against its shores and a young wave will cover my trace.
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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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