List of Czeslaw Milosz Quotes

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Czeslaw Milosz
Total Quotes 85
All was taken away from you: white dresses, wings, even existence.
Taken Wings White
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.
Believe Fate Son
I am not my own friend.time cuts me in two.
Cutting Two End Times
When i die, i will see the lining of the world. the other side, beyond bird, mountain, sunset.
Sunset Bird Mountain
I knew that i would speak in the language of the vanquished no more durable than old customs, family rituals, christmas tinsel, and once a year the hilarity of carols.
Years Hilarity Language
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.
Country Wall Past
I have no wisdom, no skills, and no faith but i received strength, it tears the world apart. i shall break, a heavy wave, against its shores and a young wave will cover my trace.
Skills Tears World
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?
Sleep Men Fire
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.
Beach Swimming Flesh
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.
Running Spring Water
And if there is no lining to the world? if a thrush on a branch is not a sign, but just a thrush on the branch? if night and day make no sense following each other?
Night Branches World
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.
Song Book People
  • Born: June 30, 1911
  • Died: August 14, 2004
  • Occupation: Poet
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