The purpose of poetry is to remind us / how difficult it is to remain just one person.
Czeslaw MiloszIt is impossible to communicate to people who have not experienced it the undefinable menace of total rationalism.
Czeslaw MiloszFor a country without a past is nothing, a word That, hardly spoken, loses its meaning, A perishable wall destroyed by flame, An echo of animal emotions.
Czeslaw MiloszWhen I die, I will see the lining of the world. The other side, beyond bird, mountain, sunset.
Czeslaw Milosz