Every poet depends upon generations who wrote in his native tongue; he inherits styles and forms elaborated by those who lived before him. At the same time, though, he feels that those old means of expression are not adequate to his own experience.
Czeslaw MiloszYou who think of us: they lived only in delusion... Know that we the People of the Book, will never die!
Czeslaw MiloszThe partition separating life from death is so tenuous. The unbelievable fragility of our organism suggests a vision on a screen: a kind of mist condenses itself into a human shape, lasts a moment and scatters.
Czeslaw MiloszThe voice of passion is better than the voice of reason. The passionless cannot change history.
Czeslaw Milosz