Czesław Miłosz said this quote

“ Since poetry deals with the singular, not the general, it cannot - if it is good poetry - look at things of this earth other than as colorful, variegated, and exciting, and so, it cannot reduce life, with all its pain, horror, suffering, and ecstasy, to a unified tonality of boredom and complaint. By necessity poetry is therefore on the side of being and against nothingness. ”

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

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

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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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