What did Czeslaw Milosz mean by: The purpose of poetry is to remind us / how difficult it is to remain just one person. Czeslaw Milosz Poet · Lithuania Copy
A true opium of the people is a belief in nothingness after death. Author, December 25, 2023January 1, 2025, Czeslaw Milosz, Belief, Death, Religion, 0 Czeslaw Milosz Poet · Lithuania
The voice of passion is better than the voice of reason. The passionless cannot change history. Author, December 25, 2023January 1, 2025, Czeslaw Milosz, History, Passion, Reason, 0 Czeslaw Milosz Poet · Lithuania
Two attributes of a poet, avidity of the eye and the desire to describe that which he sees. Author, December 25, 2023January 1, 2025, Czeslaw Milosz, Description, Perception, 0 Czeslaw Milosz Poet · Lithuania
All of us yearn for the highest wisdom, but we have to rely on ourselves in the end. Author, December 25, 2023January 1, 2025, Czeslaw Milosz, Self-reliance, Wisdom, Yearning, 0 Czeslaw Milosz Poet · Lithuania
You see how I try To reach with words What matters most And how I fail. Author, December 25, 2023January 1, 2025, Czeslaw Milosz, Communication, Failure, Frustration, 0 Czeslaw Milosz Poet · Lithuania
On the day the world ends A bee circles a clover, A fisherman mends a glimmering net. Author, December 25, 2023January 1, 2025, Czeslaw Milosz, Apocalypse, Labor, Nature, 0 Czeslaw Milosz Poet · Lithuania
Men will clutch at illusions when they have nothing else to hold to. Author, December 25, 2023January 1, 2025, Czeslaw Milosz, Desperation, Illusion, Reality, 0 Czeslaw Milosz Poet · Lithuania
All was taken away from you: white dresses, wings, even existence. Author, December 25, 2023January 1, 2025, Czeslaw Milosz, Absence, Despair, Loss, 0 Czeslaw Milosz Poet · Lithuania
Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself. Read explanation Jean Cocteau Artist · France
It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious. Jean Cocteau Artist · France
There’s no such thing as autobiography, there’s only art and lies Jeanette Winterson Author · England
Mirrors would do well to reflect a little more before sending back images. Jean Cocteau Artist · France
