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Czeslaw Milosz quotes about people

Poet June 30, 1911 – August 14, 2004

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Religion used to be the opium of the people. To those suffering humiliation, pain, illness, and serfdom, religion promised the reward of an after life. But now, we are witnessing a transformation, a true opium of the people is the belief in nothingness after death, the huge solace, the huge comfort of thinking that for our betrayals, our greed, our cowardice, our murders, we are not going to be judged. Czeslaw Milosz
And when people cease to believe that there is good and evil, Only beauty will call to them and save them. So that they will know how to say: this is true and that is false. Czeslaw Milosz
I imagine the earth when I am no more: Women's dresses, dewy lilacs, a song in the valley. Yet the books will be there on the shelves, well born, Derived from people, but also from radiance, heights.--from 'And Yet the Books Czeslaw Milosz
A true opium of the people is a belief in nothingness after death - the huge solace of thinking that for our betrayals, greed, cowardice, murders we are not going to be judged. Czeslaw Milosz
Czeslaw Milosz quote: "What is poetry which does not save nations or people?"
What is poetry which does not save nations or people? Czeslaw Milosz
Czeslaw Milosz quote: "It is impossible to communicate to people who have not..."
It is impossible to communicate to people who have not experienced it the undefinable menace of total rationalism. Czeslaw Milosz

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