In a room where people unanimously maintain a conspiracy of silence, one word of truth sounds like a pistol shot.
The living owe it to those who no longer can speak to tell their story for them.
The voice of passion is better than the voice of reason. The passionless cannot change history.
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. But now, we are witnessing a transformation, 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.
The purpose of poetry is to remind us how 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.
Evil grows and bears fruit, which is understandable, because it has logic and probability on its side and also, of course, strength. The resistance of tiny kernels of good, to which no one grants the power of causing far-reaching consequences, is entirely mysterious, however. Such seeming nothingness not only lasts but contains within itself enormous energy which is revealed gradually.
The soul exceeds its circumstances.
The true enemy of man is generalization.
Men will clutch at illusions when they have nothing else to hold to.
Not that I want to be a god or a hero. Just to change into a tree, grow for ages, not hurt anyone.
What has no shadow has no strength to live.
I think that I am here, on this earth, to present a report on it, but to whom I don't know. As if I were sent so that whatever takes place has meaning because it changes into memory.
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.
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.
The history of my stupidity would fill many volumes.
All of us yearn for the highest wisdom, but we have to rely on ourselves in the end.
The child who dwells inside us trusts that there are wise men somewhere who know the truth.
Love means to look at yourself The way one looks at distant things For you are only one thing among many.
The purpose of poetry is to remind us / how difficult it is to remain just one person.
Be young forever, seasons of the earth.
Do not feel safe. The poet remembers. You can kill one, but another is born. The words are written down, the deed, the date.
Learning To believe you are magnificent. And gradually to discover that you are not magnificent. Enough labor for one human life.
Language is the only homeland.
It is impossible to communicate to people who have not experienced it the undefinable menace of total rationalism.
It isn't pleasant to surrender to the hegemony of a nation which is still wild and primitive, and to concede the absolute superiority of its customs and institutions, science and technology, literature and art. Must one sacrifice so much in the name of the unity of mankind?
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