Czeslaw Milosz Quotes

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 even more logical than the truth itself, so the weary travelers may find repose.
Czeslaw Milosz

Truth, Reality, Lie

At the entrance, my bare feet on the dirt floor, Here, gusts of heat; at my back, white clouds. I stare and stare. It seems I was called for this: To glorify things just because they are.
Czeslaw Milosz

Here, Seems, Feet

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 the feeling that it must resign itself to passive acceptance of changes introduced from above.
Czeslaw Milosz

Feeling, Human, Hard

It is impossible to communicate to people who have not experienced it the undefinable menace of total rationalism.
Czeslaw Milosz

Impossible, Total, Menace

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

Change, History, Passion

What is poetry which does not save nations or people?
Czeslaw Milosz

Poetry, Nations, Save

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Biography

Type: Poet

Born: June 30, 1911

Died: August 14, 2004

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