Quotes by Czesaw Miosz

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American poet and Nobel laureate · American · 1911–2004

Polish-American poet and Nobel laureate (1911–2004)

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“Professional Ketman is reasoned thus: since I find myself in circumstances over which I have no control, and since I have but one life and that is fleeting, I should strive to do my best. I am like...”
— Czesaw Miosz
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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.”
— Czesaw Miosz
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“If there is no God,Not everything is permitted to man.He is still his brother's keeperAnd he is not permitted to sadden his brother,By saying there is no God.”
— Czesaw Miosz
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“If the world is divided between Fascism and Communism, obviously Fascism must lose since it is the last, desperate refuge of the bourgeoisie”
— Czesaw Miosz
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“Sceptical Ketman is widely disseminated throughout intellectual circles. One argues that humanity does not know how to handle its knowledge or how to resolve the problems of production and division...”
— Czesaw Miosz
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“The world deprived of clear-cut outlines, of the up and the down, of good and evil, succumbs to a peculiar nihilization, that is, it loses its colors, so that grayness covers not only things of thi...”
— Czesaw Miosz
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“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 lif...”
— Czesaw Miosz
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