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The soul exceeds its circumstances.
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
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Clarksburg
West Virginia
MiĆosz
Czelaw Milosz
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What has no shadow has no strength to live.
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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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When I curse Fate, it's not me, but the earth in me.
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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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What is poetry which does not save nations or people?
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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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The purpose of poetry is to remind us / how difficult it is to remain just one person.
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It was only toward the middle of the twentieth century that the inhabitants of many European countries came, in general unpleasantly, to the realization that their fate could be influenced directly by intricate and abstruse books of philosophy.
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I am composed of contradictions, which is why poetry is a better form for me than philosophy
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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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I was left behind with the immensity of existing things. A sponge, suffering because it cannot saturate itself a river, suffering because reflections of clouds and trees are not clouds and trees.
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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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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 true opium of the people is a belief in nothingness after death.
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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.
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For a country without a past is nothing, a word That, hardly spoken, loses its meaning, A perishable wall destroyed by flame, An echo of animal emotions.
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Consciousness even in my sleep changes primary colors. The features of my face melt like a wax doll in the fire. And who can consent to see in the mirror the mere face of man?
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The true enemy of man is generalization.
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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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On the day the world ends A bee circles a clover, A fisherman mends a glimmering net.
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