Czeslaw Milosz Quotes

Poland, Poet
June 30, 1911 – August, 14, 2004.

Czesław Miłosz ([ˈt͡ʂɛswaf ˈmiwɔʂ] (About this sound listen); 30 June 1911 – 14 August 2004) was a Polish poet, prose writer, translator and diplomat. He always identified strongly as well with Lithuania, as he was born in what is now Kaunas County, grew up in rural Lithuania, and was educated at university in the city of Wilno in northeastern Poland.

Also known as Writer, Translator, Diplomat

The voice of passion is better than the voice of reason. The passionless cannot change history.

Czeslaw Milosz
- History
- Passion
Human material seems to have one major defect: it does not like to be considered merely as human material. It finds it hard to endure the feeling that it must resign itself to passive acceptance of changes introduced from above.

Czeslaw Milosz
- Feeling
- Acceptance

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
- May
- Truth
- Reality
It is impossible to communicate to people who have not experienced it the undefinable menace of total rationalism.

Czeslaw Milosz
- People
At the entrance, my bare feet on the dirt floor, Here, gusts of heat; at my back, white clouds. I stare and stare. It seems I was called for this: To glorify things just because they are.

Czeslaw Milosz
- Clouds
What is poetry which does not save nations or people?

Czeslaw Milosz
- People
- Poetry