Quotes by : Czesław Miłosz

Horror is the law of the world of living creatures, and civilization is concerned with masking that truth.....

LearningTo believe you are magnificent. And gradually to discover that you are not magnificent. Enough....

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

Sceptical Ketman is widely disseminated throughout intellectual circles. One argues that humanity does....

The purpose of poetry is to remind us / how difficult it is to remain just one person...

If there is no God,Not everything is permitted to man.He is still his brother's keeperAnd he is not permitted....

The purpose of poetry is to remind ushow difficult it is to remain just one person,for our house is open,....

The living owe it to those who no longer can speak to tell their story for them.

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

The world deprived of clear-cut outlines, of the up and the down, of good and evil, succumbs to a peculiar....