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Czeslaw Milosz quotes about change

Poet June 30, 1911 – August 14, 2004

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I was not meant to live anywhere except in Paradise.Such, simply, was my genetic inadaptation.Here on earth every prick of a rose-thorn changed into a wound. When the sun hid behind a cloud, I grieved.I pretended to work like others from morning to evening, but I was absent, dedicated to invisible countries. Czeslaw Milosz
Czeslaw Milosz quote: "Not that I want to be a god or a hero. Just to change into a..."
Not that I want to be a god or a hero. Just to change into a tree, grow for ages, not hurt anyone. Czeslaw Milosz
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
Czeslaw Milosz quote: "The voice of passion is better than the voice of reason. The..."
The voice of passion is better than the voice of reason. The passionless cannot change history. Czeslaw Milosz
The survivors ran through the fields, escaping. From themselves, knowing they wouldn't return. For a hundred years. Before them were spread. Those quicksands where a tree changes into nothing, Into an anti-tree, where no borderline. Separates a shape from a shape, and where, Amid thunder, the golden house of is. Collapses, and the word becoming ascends. Czeslaw Milosz

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