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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
Pedagogue
Poet
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University Teacher
Writer
Clarksburg
West Virginia
Miłosz
Czelaw Milosz
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More quotes by Czeslaw Milosz
When I curse Fate, it's not me, but the earth in me.
Czeslaw Milosz
The child who dwells inside us trusts that there are wise men somewhere who know the truth.
Czeslaw Milosz
The soul exceeds its circumstances.
Czeslaw Milosz
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.
Czeslaw Milosz
On the day the world ends A bee circles a clover, A fisherman mends a glimmering net.
Czeslaw Milosz
Men will clutch at illusions when they have nothing else to hold to.
Czeslaw Milosz
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.
Czeslaw Milosz
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.
Czeslaw Milosz
All was taken away from you: white dresses, wings, even existence.
Czeslaw Milosz
Be young forever, seasons of the earth.
Czeslaw Milosz
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.
Czeslaw Milosz
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.
Czeslaw Milosz
It is sweet to think I was a companion in an expedition that never ends
Czeslaw Milosz
The purpose of poetry is to remind us / how difficult it is to remain just one person.
Czeslaw Milosz
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.
Czeslaw Milosz
We have become indifferent to content, and react, not even to form, but to technique, to technical efficiency itself.
Czeslaw Milosz
A true opium of the people is a belief in nothingness after death.
Czeslaw Milosz
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.
Czeslaw Milosz
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.
Czeslaw Milosz
They used to pour millet on graves or poppy seeds To feed the dead who would come disguised as birds. I put this book here for you, who once lived So that you should visit us no more.
Czeslaw Milosz
