The 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 MiloszI am composed of contradictions, which is why poetry is a better form for me than philosophy
Czeslaw MiloszWhen I die, I will see the lining of the world. The other side, beyond bird, mountain, sunset.
Czeslaw MiloszA weak human mercy walks in the corridors of hospitals and is like a half-thawed winter.
Czeslaw MiloszEvil 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