Milosz Poetry Quotes

#1. The woman I am currently crazy about was a vegetarian for a year until I started dating her. As is the case with most vegetarians, she had never eaten properly prepared meat, only commercially packaged or otherwise abused flesh.

Steve Albini

#2. What is poetry which does not save nations or people?

Czeslaw Milosz

#3. He made you you - on purpose. You are the only you - ever. Becoming ourselves means we are actively cooperating with God's intention for our lives, not fighting him or ourselves.

Stasi Eldredge

#4. Poetry is a dividend from what you know and what you are.

Czeslaw Milosz

#5. I think it was Milosz, the Polish poet, who when he lay in a doorway and watched the bullets lifting the cobbles out of the street beside him realised that most poetry is not equipped for life in a world where people actually die. But some is.

Ted Hughes

#6. If there is no God,
Not everything is permitted to man.
He is still his brother's keeper
And he is not permitted to sadden his brother,
By saying there is no God.

Czeslaw Milosz

#7. In the very essence of poetry there is something indecent; A thing brought forth that we didn't know we had in us, So we blink our eyes, as if a tiger had sprung out And stood in the light, licking its tail.

Czeslaw Milosz

#8. Keep your friends close and ridiculously gorgeous guys who should be your enemy even closer.

Lisa Roecker

#9. It is much wiser to let your inner beauty shine through a drab gown than to attempt to conceal it with physical accoutrements.

Marissa Meyer

#10. It is sweet to think I was a companion in an expedition that never ends

Czeslaw Milosz

#11. What is not pronounced tends to nonexistence.

Czeslaw Milosz

#12. I was born to play football, just like Beethoven was born to write music and Michelangelo was born to paint.

Pele

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

Czeslaw Milosz

#14. Pam, my new therapist, who's like some blissed-out, grown-up, yoga-hippie version of Rain, says that the physical body, the idea of the self, is kind of a scar: a brief puckering of time, a fleeting sewing together of energy and heart, which go beyond the physical form, on and on and on, forever.

Kate Ellison

#15. The purpose of poetry is to remind us
how difficult it is to remain just one person,
for our house is open, there are no keys in the doors,
and invisible guests come in and out at will.

Czeslaw Milosz

#16. You get to a point where it gets very complex, where you have money laundering activities, drug related activities, and terrorist support activities converging at certain points and becoming one.

Sibel Edmonds

#17. 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.

Czeslaw Milosz

#18. A brick and a blanket together create a blick. That's it. That's all I got.

Amy Summers

#19. For me a current lover has always been like whatever current book I'm writing - an obsessive project orienting all my thoughts.

Edmund White

#20. Poetry to [Milosz], then, was not so much a weapon as a witness against evil.

Leonard Nathan

#21. Poetry is news brought to the mountains by a unicorn and an echo.

Czeslaw Milosz

#22. I have defined poetry as a 'passionate pursuit of the Real.

Czeslaw Milosz

#23. In my life I have had various health threats: polio, seizures, a brain aneurysm. None of these things has really changed me much, although it is hard to say for sure. These are events that are part of my life. They make me who I am. I am thankful for them. They are scary.

Neil Young