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

“It is sweet to think I was a companion in an expedition that never ends”

“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”

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

“Once in a while i am struck”

“Oh, the things we invent when we are scared”

“This is the city, and I am one of the citizens/Whatever interests the rest interests me”

“I fancied my luck to be witnessing yet another full moon. True, I’d seen hundreds of full moons in my life, but they were not limitless. When one starts thinking of the full moon as a common sight that will come again to one’s eyes ad-infinitum, the value of life is diminished and life goes by uncherished. ‘This may be my last moon,’ I sighed, feeling a sudden sweep of sorrow; and went back to reading more of The Odyssey.”

“The most sublime labour of poetry is to give sense and passion to insensate things; and it is characteristic of children to take inanimate things in their hands and talk to them in play as if they were living persons... This philological-philosophical axiom proves to us that in the world's childhood men were by nature sublime poets...”

“What do they think has happened, the old fools,”