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I am composed of contradictions, which is why poetry is a better form for me than philosophy
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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Contradiction
Poetry
Philosophy
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Better
Contradictions
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What has no shadow has no strength to live.
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A true opium of the people is a belief in nothingness after death.
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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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Be young forever, seasons of the earth.
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What is poetry which does not save nations or people?
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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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The revolt against one's environment is usually 'shame' of one's environment.
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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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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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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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All of us yearn for the highest wisdom, but we have to rely on ourselves in the end.
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Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth. Do not follow those who lie in contempt of reality. Let your lie be even more logical than the truth itself, so the weary travelers may find repose.
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Poetry is a dividend from what you know and what you are.
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Language is the only homeland.
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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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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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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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On the day the world ends A bee circles a clover, A fisherman mends a glimmering net.
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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.
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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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