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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
Translator
University Teacher
Writer
Clarksburg
West Virginia
Miłosz
Czelaw Milosz
Contradictions
Composed
Contradiction
Poetry
Philosophy
Form
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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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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 soul exceeds its circumstances.
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All was taken away from you: white dresses, wings, even existence.
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Language is the only homeland.
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We have become indifferent to content, and react, not even to form, but to technique, to technical efficiency itself.
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Be young forever, seasons of the earth.
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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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What is poetry which does not save nations or people?
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A true opium of the people is a belief in nothingness after death.
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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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The living owe it to those who no longer can speak to tell their story for them.
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Poetry is a dividend from what you know and what you are.
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The true enemy of man is generalization.
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You see how I try To reach with words What matters most And how I fail.
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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.
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The revolt against one's environment is usually 'shame' of one's environment.
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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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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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If I am all mankind, are they themselves without me?
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