131 Quotes by Czesław Miłosz

A man should not love the moon. An ax should not lose weight in his hand. His garden should smell of rotting apples And grow a fair amount of nettles.

We have become indifferent to content, and react, not even to form, but to technique, to technical efficiency itself.

What has no shadow has no strength to live.

Two attributes of a poet, avidity of the eye and the desire to describe that which he sees.

The revolt against one's environment is usually 'shame' of one's environment.

I think that I am here, on this earth, To present a report on it, but to whom I don't know. As if I were sent so that whatever takes place Has meaning because it changes into memory.

The partition separating life from death is so tenuous. The unbelievable fragility of our organism suggests a vision on a screen: a kind of mist condenses itself into a human shape, lasts a moment and scatters.

I am composed of contradictions, which is why poetry is a better form for me than philosophy

Be young forever, seasons of the earth.