Captive-mind Quote by Czeslaw Milosz

The child who dwells inside us trusts that there are wise men somewhere who know the truth.

— Czeslaw Milosz

We have become indifferent to content, and react, not even to form, but to technique, to technical efficiency itself.

— Czeslaw Milosz

“And Yet the Books And yet the books will be there on the shelves, separate beings, That appeared once, still wet As shining chestnuts…

— Czeslaw Milosz

“When someone is honestly 55 percent right, that’s very good and there’s no use wrangling. And if someone is 60 percent right, it’s wonderful,…

— Czeslaw Milosz

“The worst possible sexual education: a taboo imposed by the Catholic church plus romantic literature elevating love to unreal heights plus the obscene language…

— Czeslaw Milosz

And if there is no lining to the world? If a thrush on a branch is not a sign, But just a thrush on…

— Czeslaw Milosz

At every sunrise I renounce the doubts of night and greet the new day of a most precious delusion.

— Czeslaw Milosz

The soul exceeds its circumstances.

— Czeslaw Milosz

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…

— Czeslaw Milosz

There was a time when only wise books were read helping us to bear our pain and misery. This, after all, is not quite…

— Czeslaw Milosz

If I am all mankind, are they themselves without me?

— Czeslaw Milosz

“In the very essence of poetry there is something indecent; A thing brought forth that we didn't know we had in us, So we…

— Czeslaw Milosz