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Language is the only homeland.
Czeslaw Milosz
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Czeslaw Milosz
Age: 93 †
Born: 1911
Born: June 30
Died: 2004
Died: August 14
Diplomat
Essayist
Pedagogue
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Clarksburg
West Virginia
MiĆosz
Czelaw Milosz
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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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I am composed of contradictions, which is why poetry is a better form for me than philosophy
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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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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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All was taken away from you: white dresses, wings, even existence.
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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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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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The partition separating life from death is so tenuous. The unbelievable fragility of our organism suggests a vision on a screen: a kind of mist condenses itself into a human shape, lasts a moment and scatters.
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The revolt against one's environment is usually 'shame' of one's environment.
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The true enemy of man is generalization.
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The soul exceeds its circumstances.
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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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A weak human mercy walks in the corridors of hospitals and is like a half-thawed winter.
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A true opium of the people is a belief in nothingness after death.
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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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You see how I try To reach with words What matters most And how I fail.
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Men will clutch at illusions when they have nothing else to hold to.
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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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