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What has no shadow has no strength to live.

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
Shadow
Strength
Live

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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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The soul exceeds its circumstances.
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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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Even if that is so, there will remain A word wakened by lips that perish, A tireless messenger who runs and runs Through interstellar fields, through the revolving galaxies, And calls out, protests, screams.
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Men will clutch at illusions when they have nothing else to hold to.
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The revolt against one's environment is usually 'shame' of one's environment.
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You see how I try To reach with words What matters most And how I fail.
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If I am all mankind, are they themselves without me?
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When I curse Fate, it's not me, but the earth in me.
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The living owe it to those who no longer can speak to tell their story for them.
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What is poetry which does not save nations or people?
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I am composed of contradictions, which is why poetry is a better form for me than philosophy
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Be young forever, seasons of the earth.
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