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Czeslaw Milosz
 
Date of birth: 30 June 1911
Date of death: 14 August 2004
Country Of Origin: Poland
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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" It is impossible to communicate to people who have not experienced it the undefinable menace of total rationalism. "

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" The masses in highly industrialized countries like England, the United States, or France are largely de-Christianized. Technology, and the way of life it produces, undermines Christianity far more effectively than do violent measures. "

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

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" What is poetry which does not save nations or people? "

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