Czeslaw Milosz Quotes

All was taken away from you: white dresses, wings, even existence. Czeslaw Milosz Picture Quote

All was taken away from you: white dresses, wings, even existence.

— Czeslaw Milosz

Be young forever, seasons of the earth. Czeslaw Milosz Picture Quote

Be young forever, seasons of the earth.

— Czeslaw Milosz

It was only toward the middle of the twentieth century that the Czeslaw Milosz Picture Quote

It was only toward the middle of the twentieth century that the

— Czeslaw Milosz

The revolt against one’s environment is usually ‘shame’ of one’s environment. Czeslaw Milosz Picture Quote

The revolt against one’s environment is usually ‘shame’ of one’s environment.

— Czeslaw Milosz

Love means to look at yourself The way one looks at distant Czeslaw Milosz Picture Quote

Love means to look at yourself The way one looks at distant

— Czeslaw Milosz

Men will clutch at illusions when they have nothing else to hold to. Czeslaw Milosz Picture Quote

Men will clutch at illusions when they have nothing else to hold to.

— Czeslaw Milosz

Religion used to be the opium of the people. To those suffering Czeslaw Milosz Picture Quote

Religion used to be the opium of the people. To those suffering

— Czeslaw Milosz

All of us yearn for the highest wisdom, but we have to rely on ourselves in the end. Czeslaw Milosz Picture Quote

All of us yearn for the highest wisdom, but we have to rely on ourselves in the end.

— Czeslaw Milosz

And now I am ready to keep running When the sun rises Czeslaw Milosz Picture Quote

And now I am ready to keep running When the sun rises

— Czeslaw Milosz

Learning To believe you are magnificent. And gradually to discover that you Czeslaw Milosz Picture Quote

Learning To believe you are magnificent. And gradually to discover that you

— Czeslaw Milosz

A true opium of the people is a belief in nothingness after Czeslaw Milosz Picture Quote

A true opium of the people is a belief in nothingness after

— Czeslaw Milosz

The partition separating life from death is so tenuous. The unbelievable fragility Czeslaw Milosz Picture Quote

The partition separating life from death is so tenuous. The unbelievable fragility

— Czeslaw Milosz

Not that I want to be a God or a hero. Just Czeslaw Milosz Picture Quote

Not that I want to be a God or a hero. Just

— Czeslaw Milosz

Language is the only homeland. Czeslaw Milosz Picture Quote

Language is the only homeland.

— Czeslaw Milosz

The vineyard country, russet, reddish, carmine-brown in this season. A blue outline Czeslaw Milosz Picture Quote

The vineyard country, russet, reddish, carmine-brown in this season. A blue outline

— Czeslaw Milosz

I am not my own friend.Time cuts me in two. Czeslaw Milosz Picture Quote

I am not my own friend.Time cuts me in two.

— Czeslaw Milosz

Forget the suffering You caused others. Forget the suffering Others caused you. Czeslaw Milosz Picture Quote

Forget the suffering You caused others. Forget the suffering Others caused you.

— Czeslaw Milosz

It is sweet to think I was a companion in an expedition that never ends Czeslaw Milosz Picture Quote

It is sweet to think I was a companion in an expedition that never ends

— Czeslaw Milosz

The soul exceeds its circumstances. Czeslaw Milosz Picture Quote

The soul exceeds its circumstances.

— Czeslaw Milosz

In a room where people unanimously maintain a conspiracy of silence, one Czeslaw Milosz Picture Quote

In a room where people unanimously maintain a conspiracy of silence, one

— Czeslaw Milosz

At every sunrise I renounce the doubts of night and greet the Czeslaw Milosz Picture Quote

At every sunrise I renounce the doubts of night and greet the

— Czeslaw Milosz

Poetry is a dividend from what you know and what you are. Czeslaw Milosz Picture Quote

Poetry is a dividend from what you know and what you are.

— Czeslaw Milosz

I am composed of contradictions, which is why poetry is a better Czeslaw Milosz Picture Quote

I am composed of contradictions, which is why poetry is a better

— Czeslaw Milosz

Human reason is beautiful and invincible. No bars, no barbed wire, no Czeslaw Milosz Picture Quote

Human reason is beautiful and invincible. No bars, no barbed wire, no

— Czeslaw Milosz

The purpose of poetry is to remind us / how difficult it is to remain just one person… Czeslaw Milosz Picture Quote

The purpose of poetry is to remind us / how difficult it is to remain just one person…

— Czeslaw Milosz

Yet falling in love is not the same as being able to love. Czeslaw Milosz Picture Quote

Yet falling in love is not the same as being able to love.

— Czeslaw Milosz

When a writer is born into a family, the family is finished. Czeslaw Milosz Picture Quote

When a writer is born into a family, the family is finished.

— Czeslaw Milosz

He returns years later, has no demands. He wants only one, most Czeslaw Milosz Picture Quote

He returns years later, has no demands. He wants only one, most

— Czeslaw Milosz

Two attributes of a poet, avidity of the eye and the desire Czeslaw Milosz Picture Quote

Two attributes of a poet, avidity of the eye and the desire

— Czeslaw Milosz

What has no shadow has no strength to live. Czeslaw Milosz Picture Quote

What has no shadow has no strength to live.

— Czeslaw Milosz

We have become indifferent to content, and react, not even to form, Czeslaw Milosz Picture Quote

We have become indifferent to content, and react, not even to form,

— Czeslaw Milosz

Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth. Do Czeslaw Milosz Picture Quote

Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth. Do

— Czeslaw Milosz

Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth. Czeslaw Milosz Picture Quote

Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth.

— Czeslaw Milosz

Do not feel safe. The poet remembers. You can kill one, but Czeslaw Milosz Picture Quote

Do not feel safe. The poet remembers. You can kill one, but

— Czeslaw Milosz

The purpose of poetry is to remind us how difficult it is Czeslaw Milosz Picture Quote

The purpose of poetry is to remind us how difficult it is

— Czeslaw Milosz

Consolation Calm down. Both your sins and your good deeds will be lost in oblivion. Czeslaw Milosz Picture Quote

Consolation Calm down. Both your sins and your good deeds will be lost in oblivion.

— Czeslaw Milosz

Forget the suffering You caused others. Forget the suffering Others caused you. Czeslaw Milosz Picture Quote

Forget the suffering You caused others. Forget the suffering Others caused you.

— Czeslaw Milosz

Poetry is news brought to the mountains by a unicorn and an echo. Czeslaw Milosz Picture Quote

Poetry is news brought to the mountains by a unicorn and an echo.

— Czeslaw Milosz

A day so happy. Fog lifted early. I worked in the garden. Czeslaw Milosz Picture Quote

A day so happy. Fog lifted early. I worked in the garden.

— Czeslaw Milosz

A true opium of the people is a belief in nothingness after death. Czeslaw Milosz Picture Quote

A true opium of the people is a belief in nothingness after death.

— Czeslaw Milosz

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