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What is poetry which does not save nations or people?

Czeslaw Milosz

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Czeslaw Milosz
Age: 93 †
Born: 1911
Born: June 30
Died: 2004
Died: August 14
Diplomat
Essayist
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Clarksburg
West Virginia
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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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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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All was taken away from you: white dresses, wings, even existence.
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The purpose of poetry is to remind us / how difficult it is to remain just one person.
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The history of my stupidity would fill many volumes.
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It is sweet to think I was a companion in an expedition that never ends
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The true enemy of man is generalization.
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I liked beaches, swimming pools, and clinics for there they were the bone of my bone, flesh of my flesh. I pitied them and myself, but this will not protect me. The word and the thought are over.
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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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