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DrLauraMarkham: "In a room where people unanimously maintain a conspiracy of silence, one word of truth sounds like a pistol shot." - Czeslaw Milosz
mexicocityblues: Czeslaw Milosz, New and Collected Poems: 1931-2001
kathkween: on this new moon in deep quarantine at the end of the year i am thinking about this czeslaw milosz quote
monamicherie: Lovely quote of the the great poet Czeslaw Milosz.
czeslaw_milosz: Light off metal shaken, / Lucid dew of heaven, / Bless each and every one / To whom the earth is given.
neurosocialself: ‘My generation was lost. Cities too. And nations.
But all this a little later. Meanwhile,
in the window, a swallow ..’
Czeslaw Milosz
From the Rising of the Sun, 1974
Matorka: Ecstatic Pessimist: Czeslaw Milosz, Poet of Catastrophe and Hope - 9781538172452
NTarnopolsky: Koncewicz continues citing Czeslaw Milosz: "In a room where people unanimously maintain a conspiracy of silence, one word of truth sounds like a pistol shot."
ansfavwords: And for me, now as then, it is too much.
There is too much world.
Czeslaw Milosz
BeineckeLibrary: Do not feel safe. The poet remembers.
You can kill one, but another is born.
The words are written down, the deed, the date.
Czesław Miłosz, "You Who Wronged"
Miłosz papers
Exaudiam: "The so-called Hegelian sting (or, to put it simply, veneration of historical necessity) has been well described, mainly by Czesław Miłosz in The Captive Mind, which analyzes mechanisms of the communist servility of Polish intellectuals. [....]
ivangvega: They used to pour millet on graves or poppy seeds
To feed the dead who would come disguised as birds.
I put this book here for you, who once lived
So that you should visit us no more.
--Czeslaw Milosz, en su propia traducción; Varsovia, 1945.
holdengraber: A Song on the End of the World
“On the day the world ends
A bee circles a clover,
A fisherman mends a glimmering net.
Happy porpoises jump in the sea,
By the rainspout young sparrows are playing”
~ Czeslaw Milosz
SundayPaints: “He returns years later, has no demands.
He wants only one, most precious thing:
To see, purely and simply, without name,
Without expectations, fears, or hopes,
At the edge where there is no I or not-I.”
Czesław Miłosz
julieta60228009: Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth. Do not follow those who lie in contempt of reality. Let your lie be even more logical than the truth itself, so the weary travelers may find repose.,Czeslaw Milosz,Tree, Reality, Small ,
ThomasPfau3: Inevitably, we think how this scene from German-occupied Warsaw in 1944 has - described by Czeslaw Milosz - has repeated itself countless times this past year in Bucha, Mariopul, Kharkiv, Kramatorsk, and numberless towns and villages of eastern Ukraine.
LisaBurka: The purpose of creativity is to remind us how difficult it is to remain just one person.” -Czeslaw Milosz
auderdy: Czeslaw Milosz, Polish-American poet, was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1980—his colleagues at UC Berkeley were surprised bc many did not even know he was a poet. He wrote almost entirely in Polish, which Americans couldn’t understand & was censored in Poland
adrianmckinty: from Miroslav Holub to Czeslaw Milosz...
this poem was written in Warsaw in the summer of 1944 and recalls those last moments before the city was obliterated by the Nazis
A Song on the End of the World
ThomasPfau3: Rereading Czeslaw Milosz, "A Treatise on Poetry," I'm again startled by lines like these.
literaryheight: i have one, bosnian i believe? about the war but i haven't been anle to find it. its my all time fav but ill search for it later. i can give another one that i enjoy - 'miasto' by czeslaw milosz and 'ktory skrzywdziles'. translation to the second one attached :)
and_contemplate: Let a new man arise, one who, instead of submitting to the world, will transform it. Let him create a historical formation, instead of yielding to its bondage. Only thus can he redeem the absurdity of his physiological existence.
Czesław Miłosz, "The Captive Mind".
LJensenLampe: This poem? micro-essay? by Czeslaw Milosz came out 25 years ago—I feel it now. Then what?
broken_coriolan: I know a dude who works for the State Department who keeps a copy of Czeslaw Milosz on his desk at all times to consult
ansfavwords: And for me, now as then, it is too much.
There is too much world.
Czeslaw Milosz
MalcolmYoung: “Come, Holy Spirit.. I am only a man: I need visible signs...
Many a time I asked, you know it well, that the statue in the church
lift its hand, only once, just once, for me.”
The Gospel According to Czeslaw Milosz
ValzhynaMort: “Art is loaded with future forms and future systems, even though it still has no clear conception of them, because if it had, it would be only an obedient craft.”
Czeslaw Milosz in “The Boundaries of Art,” an essay written in Warsaw in 1943.
Steenfr5576: A true opium of the people is a belief in nothingness after death - the huge solace of thinking that for our betrayals, greed, cowardice, murders we are not going to be judged.,Czesław Miłosz,religion,
Profixel7271: The living owe it to those who no longer can speak to tell their story for them.,Czesław Miłosz, The Issa Valley,dead, living, remembrance, reminiscence,
fabidanslemetro: Czeslaw Milosz in 1968 (from the last essay in Native Realm). One of the books that have kept me going, this past year.
ForTheTape: Love means to look at yourself
The way one looks at distant things
For you are only one thing among many. And whoever sees that way heals his heart, Without knowing it, from various ills —
A bird and a tree say to him: Friend.
Czesław Miłosz, The World: Love (1943)
roddreher: If you ever wondered what Czeslaw Milosz meant when he talked about "ketman" in "The Captive Mind," this is a great example. Watch to the very end to hear the guy's confession.
readingnooks: “All of us yearns for the highest wisdom, but we have to rely on ourselves in the end.”
~ Czeslaw Milosz
readingnooks: Not More
“This I wanted and nothing more. In my age
Like old Goethe to stand before the face of the earth,
And recognize it and reconcile it
With the accomplished work, a forest citadel
Above the river of changing lights and brief shadows.”
~ Czeslaw Milosz, Poem, 1943
jeffreyscott88: "True opium of the people is the belief in nothingness after death: the huge solace, the huge comfort of thinking that for our betrayals, our greed, our cowardice, our murders, we are not going to be judged."
-Czesław Miłosz
Hopeleslie1234: Only a white-haired old man, who would be a prophet
Yet is not a prophet, for he’s much too busy,
Repeats while he binds his tomatoes:
No other end of the world will there be,
No other end of the world will there be.
“A Song On the End of the World,” Czesław Miłosz
TrueChilled9691: I was left behind with the immensity of existing things. A river, suffering because reflections of clouds and tress and not clouds and trees.,Czesław Miłosz,existentialism, nature, trees,
etechne: For my fellow Lentventurers: Czeslaw Milosz, Gustave Doré, Darrell Mansfield and the Freemans.
brucekodish: Czeslaw Milosz & New Order - A Song On The End Of The World (Blue Monday)
ansfavwords: And for me, now as then, it is too much.
There is too much world.
Czeslaw Milosz
damaris11026380: The purpose of poetry is to remind ushow 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.,Czesław Miłosz,poetry,
womensyear: 'Love means to learn to look at yourself
The way one looks at distant things'
from 'Love' by Czeslaw Milosz
LindaChown2020: “I am no more than a secretary of the invisible thing.”
Czeslaw Milosz
JackyFitt: “Language is the only homeland.” Czeslaw Milosz
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JordanISsilver: “A true opium of the people is the belief in nothingness after death, the huge solace, the huge comfort of thinking that for our betrayals, our greed, our cowardice, our murders, we are not going to be judged.”
- Czeslaw Milosz
malaisebot: “On the day the world ends, a bee circles a clover, a fisherman mends a glimmering net. Happy porpoises jump in the sea. By the rainspout, young sparrows are playing, and the snake is gold-skinned as it should always be.”
- A Song on the End of the World by Czeslaw Milosz
yeredngesa: Polish Nobel Laureate Czeslaw Milosz: A true opium of the people is a belief in nothingness after death — the huge solace of thinking that for our betrayals, greed, cowardice, and murders, we are not going to be judged.
Dilan_A7: “The bright side of the planet moves toward darknessAnd the cities are falling asleep, each in its hour,And for me, now as then, it is too much.There is too much world.”
~ Czeslaw Milosz
The Separate Notebooks
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johnshaplin: The Advisor by Czeslaw Milosz
jasonwblakely: The great polish poet—Czeslaw Milosz—on Washington, D.C. as a city upon first visiting in 1946:
"an impersonal machine, a pure abstraction."
wanderingsag: What has no shadow has no strength to live
~Czeslaw Milosz
apamrendra: Poetry's sole purpose---witness. This poem serves well.
In the middle of the road by Carlos Drummond De Andrade. from A Book Of Luminous Things, an anthology edited by Czeslaw Milosz
hawkstar5000: 'The wings of desire for the transcendent have been cut, and we have forgotten that they are even there.'
dooyeweerdian: Czeslaw Milosz on “Religion opium for the people”: “To those suffering pain, humiliation, illness, and serfdom,it/promised a reward/in an afterlife. And now we/are witnessing a transformation.
SundayPaints: “He returns years later, has no demands.
He wants only one, most precious thing:
To see, purely and simply, without name,
Without expectations, fears, or hopes,
At the edge where there is no I or not-I.”
Czesław Miłosz
StreetsofC: Hope is with you when you believe
The earth is not a dream but living flesh,
That sight, touch, and hearing do not lie,
That all things you have ever seen here
Are like a garden looked at from a gate.
You cannot enter. But you're sure it's there.
- Czesław Miłosz
Photo: Chicago
H93673126: When it hurts we return to the banks of certain rivers .
Czeslaw Milosz.
settofaze: We wanted to confess our sins but there were no takers.
— Czeslaw Milosz
Mathias8Wolf: The war in Ukraine was a frequently referred to, one speaker cited Czesław Miłosz that It still makes sense to plant apple trees (and to plant letters into book pages?) even if the world were to end tomorrow. The presence of +- 60 guests from Ukraine underlines the attention
moviefansblog: 楽天 New and Collected Poems 1931-2001 NEW & COLL POEMS 1931-2001 [ Czeslaw Milosz ]
infinita_fiori: to put it another way
i would give all metaphors
in return for one word
drawn out of my breast like a rib
for one word contained within the boundaries
of my skin.
zbigniew herbert
tr. czesław miłosz
salocinreyob: Rewriting the past in order to control the present is literally Winston's job in 1984.
Another book warning about totalitarianism, The Captive Mind, by Czeslaw Milosz, describes perfectly well how the process works and how easy it is for some to justify it.
LaughAtLefties: A new, humorless generation is now arising.
It takes in earnest all we received with laughter
-Czeslaw Milosz, 1946
joycebudenberg: Even asleep we partake in the becoming of the world
~ Czeslaw Milosz
PoetNotRockStar: “Do you know how it is when one wakes at night suddenly and asks, listening to the pounding heart: what more do you want, insatiable?”
— Czeslaw Milosz
d_umadlpisani: “There is no one between you and me.
Neither a plant drawing sap from the depths of earth
nor an animal, nor a man,
nor a wind walking between the clouds.”
Czeslaw Milosz, Selected Poem.
(Bernard Plossu)
ansfavwords: And for me, now as then, it is too much.
There is too much world.
Czeslaw Milosz
Heda_Mel: I have read through this book so many times and Czeslaw Milosz always stuns me with “The Tongue”
sofijazovko: Thinking of this Czesław Miłosz poem today.
“Do not feel safe. The poet remembers. / You can kill one, but another is born.”
arhamur_rahimin: Love
Love means to learn to look at yourself
The way one looks at distant things
For you are only one thing among many.
And whoever sees that way heals his heart
Without knowing it, from various ills-
A bird and a tree say to him: Friend.
Czeslaw Milosz, New and Collected Poems
RamiRobyn: “When there appeared a poet in a family of the Arabs, the other tribes would gather around that family and wish them joy of their good luck.” Ibn Rashiq of Qayrawan, d. 1070.
“When a writer is born into a family, the family is finished.” Czeslaw Milosz, d. 2004.
IllinoisPress: Marek Bernacki, editor of the special issue of The Polish Review: "Lessons from the Archive: Rereading Accounts from and about the Warsaw Ghetto," discusses 5 little-known texts by Czesław Milosz from 1946–1968 in "Memory and Reflection" from Vol. 68.1.
mmimmimoo: Czeslaw Milosz, New and Collected Poems: 1931-2001
Nate_McMurray: “In a room where people unanimously maintain a conspiracy of silence, one word of truth sounds like a pistol shot.”
Czeslaw Milosz, Nobel Lecture
Abroosahib: “Religion used to be the opium of the people. To those suffering humiliation, pain, illness, and serfdom, religion promised the reward of an after life.
Czesław Miłosz
AtashiShara: Whoever say he’s 100% right is a fanatic, a thug, and the worst kind of rascal."
An Old Jew of Galicia, quoted by Czeslaw Milosz in "The Captive Mind"
Image: Francisco Goya
fahad_maral: “In a room where people unanimously maintain a conspiracy of silence, one word of truth sounds like a pistol shot.”
Czeslaw Milosz
mustagfir786: In a room where people unanimously maintain a conspiracy of silence, one word of truth sounds like a pistol shot.– Nobel laureate Czeslaw Milosz (1911-2004)
NssUpes: "The living owe it to those who no longer can speak to tell their story for them." - Czesław Miłosz
It has been 4 years since the terror day when the bravest of the brave were martyred in the lap of our motherland.
Bertrom: ‘When a writer is born into a family, that family is finished.’
Czeslaw Milosz.
This I believe to be true.
Bertrom: I imagine the earth when I am no more:
Nothing happens, no loss, it’s still a strange pageant,
Women’s dresses, dewy lilacs, a song in the valley.
Yet the books will be there on the shelves, well born,
Derived from people, but also from radiance, heights.
Czeslaw Milosz.
ArtsJournalNews: California's Greatest Poet Wrote Exactly One Poem In English And None In Spanish. Can You Name Him?:
goodnatureart: Utterance by Merwin from my bible A Book of Luminous Things by Czeslaw Milosz
d_catholic: Word On Fire
gloriousnoir: So why this gracious melancholia? Is it because anger is not use? (Czeslaw Milosz, New and Collected poems:1931-2001)
Godgift64107811: What is poetry which does not save nations or people?
-Czeslaw Milosz
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opus125: You received gifts from me; they were accepted.
But you don’t understand how to think about the dead.
The smell of winter apples, of hoarfrost, and of linen.
There are nothing but gifts on this poor, poor Earth.
Czeslaw Milosz
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SpencerJQuinn1: My latest at Counter-Currents is a review of Czeslaw Milosz's classic anti-Communist tract The Captive Mind. There are some real gems in this one. Enjoy.
malaisebot: “...a drunkard grows sleepy at the edge of a lawn, vegetable peddlers shout in the street, and a yellow-sailed boat comes nearer the island, the voice of a violin lasts in the air and leads into a starry night.”
- A Song on the End of the World by Czeslaw Milosz
chaven: BREAKING NEWS: I'M CAUTIOUSLY OPTIMISTIC THAT AMAZON HAS THE BOOKS, AND IS EVEN OFFERING A SECOND AT 50% OFF.
poemakontsa: Good morning to you waking up with Czesław Miłosz's mantra in your hearts,
of all things in life, porcelain troubles me the most
_e_morgan: "The bright side of the planet moves toward darkness
And the cities are falling asleep, each in its hour,
And for me, now as then, it is too much.
There is too much world."
--Czeslaw Milosz
Jeremiah820: My monthly book review round-up:
FedeItaliano76: My Lord, I loved strawberry jam
And the dark sweetness of a woman’s body.
Also well-chilled vodka, herring in olive oil,
Scents, of cinnamon, of cloves.
So what kind of prophet am I?
—Czeslaw Milosz ('A Confession', 1985)
ThePublicSquare: Czesław Miłosz, while famous in Poland and in poetry circles, is a name unfamiliar to most Californians. But he remains the only faculty member in the University of California system to win a Nobel Prize in literature.
chaven: "Czesław Miłosz: A California Life," just featured in "The San Francisco Chronicle" and "San Jose Mercury," is sold out at Amazon. If you don't want to wait, you can order directly from Heyday in Berkeley:
RobertASzabo: Learning
To believe you are magnificent. And gradually to discover that you are not magnificent. Enough labor for one human life.
Czesław Miłosz
timesflow: “The power of the poetic mind is fuelled by ingesting as much of the world as possible, not by retreating into the perilous regions of inner intimacy.” — Adam Zagajewski (on Czeslaw Milosz)
JackyFitt: “Language is the only homeland.” Czeslaw Milosz
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Jonathan Hirschfeld: I felt I had been invited to look, even to scrutinise, but perhaps not to see.
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