Czeslaw Milosz Citas

• Los vivos deben a los que ya no pueden hablar contar su historia por ellos.

  Czeslaw Milosz

  Remembrance, Stories, Speak

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• En una sala donde la gente mantiene unánimemente una conspiración de silencio, una palabra de verdad suena como un disparo de pistola.

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  Truth, Integrity, People

  Czeslaw Milosz's Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 8, 1980.

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• The purpose of poetry is to remind us how difficult it is to remain just one person, for our house is open, there are no keys in the doors, and invisible guests come in and out at will.

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  Keys, Doors, House

  Czeslaw Milosz, “Ars Poetica?”

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• The voice of passion is better than the voice of reason. The passionless cannot change history.

  Czeslaw Milosz

  Change, Passion, Voice

  Czeslaw Milosz, “Child Of Europe”

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• Religion used to be the opium of the people. To those suffering humiliation, pain, illness, and serfdom, religion promised the reward of an after life. But now, we are witnessing a transformation, a true opium of the people is the belief in nothingness after death, the huge solace, the huge comfort of thinking that for our betrayals, our greed, our cowardice, our murders, we are not going to be judged.

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  Atheist, Pain, Betrayal

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• The true enemy of man is generalization.

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  Men, Enemy, Generalization

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• The soul exceeds its circumstances.

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  Soul, Circumstances, Exceed

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

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  Men, Illusion, Clutch

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• Not that I want to be a god or a hero. Just to change into a tree, grow for ages, not hurt anyone.

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  Inspiración, Vida, Dolor

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• Evil grows and bears fruit, which is understandable, because it has logic and probability on its side and also, of course, strength. The resistance of tiny kernels of good, to which no one grants the power of causing far-reaching consequences, is entirely mysterious, however. Such seeming nothingness not only lasts but contains within itself enormous energy which is revealed gradually.

  Czeslaw Milosz

  Evil, Energy, Lasts

  "To Begin Where I Am: Selected Essays (If Only This Could Be Said)". Book edited and translated by Bogdana Carpenter and Madeline G. Levine, 2001.

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• What has no shadow has no strength to live.

  Czeslaw Milosz

  Sombra

  Czeslaw Milosz, “Faith”

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• I think that I am here, on this earth, to present a report on it, but to whom I don't know. As if I were sent so that whatever takes place has meaning because it changes into memory.

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  Memories, Thinking, Earth

  "Consciousness" by Czeslaw Milosz, 1986.

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• The history of my stupidity would fill many volumes.

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  Stupidity, Volume

  Czeslaw Milosz, “Account”

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• Un verdadero opio del pueblo es la creencia en la nada después de la muerte - el enorme consuelo de pensar que por nuestras traiciones, codicia, cobardía, asesinatos no vamos a ser juzgados.

  Czeslaw Milosz

  Betrayal, Thinking, People

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

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  Ends, Rely, Highest

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• Language is the only homeland.

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  Language, Homeland

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• Amar significa mirarse a uno mismo
  Como se miran las cosas lejanas
  Porque sólo eres una cosa entre muchas.

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  Mean, Looks, Way

  "Rescue". Book by Czeslaw Milosz, 1945.

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• En cada amanecer renuncio a las dudas de la noche y saludo el nuevo
  día de la más preciosa ilusión.

  Czeslaw Milosz

  Night, New Day, Doubt

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

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  Purpose, Difficult, Poetry Is

  Czeslaw Milosz (2017). “Selected and Last Poems 1931-2004”, p.127, Penguin UK

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• Be young forever, seasons of the earth.

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  Forever, Earth, Young

  Czeslaw Milosz (2017). “Selected and Last Poems 1931-2004”, p.230, Penguin UK

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

  Czeslaw Milosz

  Wise, Children, Men

  "In gratitude for all the gifts" by Seamus Heaney, www.theguardian.com. September 10, 2004.

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• I am composed of contradictions, which is why poetry is a better form for me than philosophy

  Czeslaw Milosz

  Philosophy, Contradiction, Form

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

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  Born, Finished

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• Do not feel safe. The poet remembers.
  You can kill one, but another is born.
  The words are written down, the deed, the date.

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  Remember You, Remembers You, Deeds

  Czeslaw Milosz, “You Who Wronged”

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• 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 wanted to possess. I know no one worth my envying him.

  Czeslaw Milosz

  Gratitud, aprecio, alegría

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