All Czeslaw Milosz Quotes
- A day so happy. Fog lifted early. I worked in the garden. Hummingbirds were stopping over honeysuckle flowers. There was no thing on earth I… Cheer
- 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
- We have become indifferent to content, and react, not even to form, but to technique, to technical efficiency itself. Become Indifferent
- 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… Contempt
- Two attributes of a poet, avidity of the eye and the desire to describe that which he sees. Attributes
- Be young forever, seasons of the earth. Earth
- What is poetry which does not save nations or people? Doe
- It is impossible to communicate to people who have not experienced it the undefinable menace of total rationalism. Communicate
- Human material seems to have one major defect: it does not like to be considered merely as human material. It finds it hard to endure… Acceptance
- The child who dwells inside us trusts that there are wise men somewhere who know the truth. Argument
- I am composed of contradictions, which is why poetry is a better form for me than philosophy Better
- The soul exceeds its circumstances. Circumstances
- The revolt against one's environment is usually 'shame' of one's environment. Environment
- And now I am ready to keep running When the sun rises beyond the borderlands of death. I already see mountain ridges in the heavenly… Already See
- A true opium of the people is a belief in nothingness after death. Belief
- All was taken away from you: white dresses, wings, even existence. All
- Men will clutch at illusions when they have nothing else to hold to. Clutch
- I've always regretted that I'm made of contradictions. But, if contradiction is impossible to overcome, we have to accept both its ends. Accept
- Vulgarized knowledge characteristically gives birth to a feeling that everything is understandable and explained. It is like a system of bridges built over chasms. One… Ahead
- The voice of passion is better than the voice of reason. The passionless cannot change history. Better
- Learning To believe you are magnificent. And gradually to discover that you are not magnificent. Enough labor for one human life. Believe
- Yet falling in love is not the same as being able to love. Able
- 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… Banishment
- 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… Book
- The living owe it to those who no longer can speak to tell their story for them. Inspirational