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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
Poet
Translator
University Teacher
Writer
Clarksburg
West Virginia
Miłosz
Czelaw Milosz
Homeland
Language

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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 weak human mercy walks in the corridors of hospitals and is like a half-thawed winter.
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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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Poetry is a dividend from what you know and what you are.
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The revolt against one's environment is usually 'shame' of one's environment.
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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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On the day the world ends A bee circles a clover, A fisherman mends a glimmering net.
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When I curse Fate, it's not me, but the earth in me.
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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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Men will clutch at illusions when they have nothing else to hold to.
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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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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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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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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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Forget the suffering You caused others. Forget the suffering Others caused you. The waters run and run, Springs sparkle and are done, You walk the earth you are forgetting.
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All was taken away from you: white dresses, wings, even existence.
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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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