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“ Poetry is an attempt to penetrate the dense reality to find a place where the simplest things look as new as through the eyes of a child. ”

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LearningTo believe you are magnificent. And gradually to discover that you are not magnificent. Enough labor for one human life.

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Czesław Miłosz Humility Learning Life Self Knowledge

In a room wherepeople unanimously maintaina conspiracy of silence,one word of truthsounds like a pistol shot.

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Czesław Miłosz Democracy Dissent Heroes Honesty Integrity Truth Truth Telling Virtue

You see how I tryTo reach with wordsWhat matters mostAnd how I fail.

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Czesław Miłosz Loss Poetry Words

Not soon, as late as the approach of my ninetieth year, I felt a door opening in me and I entered the clarity of early morning. One after another my former lives were departing, like ships, together with their sorrow. And the countries, cities, gardens, the bays of seas assigned to my brush came closer, ready now to be described better than they were before.

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