Poetry Quote by Czeslaw Milosz — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Not soon, as late as the approach of my ninetieth year, I felt a door opening in me and I entered the clarity of early morning.”

“I have defined poetry as a 'passionate pursuit of the Real.”

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

“The purpose of poetry is to remind us”

“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.”

“I only wrote prose before I met you.”

“Always be a poet, even in prose.”

“I had to learn to live without you and I couldn't make sense of it, because I left so much of me inside of you.”

“They call each other ‘E.’ Elvis picks”

“Nature is mother that gives happiness to humanity,”

“I dream of lost vocabularies that might express some of what we no longer can.”