Czeslaw Milosz Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality:
  • Birth: June 30, 1911 - August 14, 2004

Topics

CloudsFeetBackWhiteJust Because

Fiction has a unique role in conveying Truth. In fact, only fiction that is Truth with a capital T is worthwhile.

Jerry B. Jenkins

TruthUniqueFictionRoleWorthwhile

There's nobody as good as the Ramones, never will be.

Joey Ramone

GoodNobodyWillNeverRamones

You know who my gods are, who I believe in fervently? Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson - she's probably the top - Mozart, Shakespeare, Keats. These are wonderful gods who have gotten me through the narrow straits of life.

Maurice Sendak

LifeMeBelieveYouKnowShe

One tech-related concern with religion is that it appears to be a positive feedback loop to the accelerating rich-poor gap, as the disenfranchised opt out of modernity.

Steve Jurvetson

PositiveReligionFeedbackOutGap

I started dating JD Samson from Le Tigre, and suddenly I was listening to more up-tempo music and old dance music, like ESG and Gang of Four, and I thought, 'Wow. This is fun.'

Sia

MusicDanceDatingFunListening

I want to be one that is willing to do things that are not easy but that need to be done.

Mike Lee

EasyDoneWantNeedThingsWilling

Personally, it's a comfort and happiness to know that my work is taken seriously and is not marginalised and put in a box of ethnic immigrant writing in America.

Dinaw Mengestu

WorkHappinessWritingAmericaKnow

Me and Jerry left because we felt we weren't getting anywhere playing our old songs in tiny clubs. The group was getting stale and staying behind the times.

Johnny Thunders

MeGroupOldPlayingLeftOld Songs

Don't sell your soul to buy peanuts for the monkeys.

Dorothy Salisbury Davis

SoulBuyMonkeysSellYourPeanuts

Motion picture making is a very, very involved affair. It is completely my baby. I'm a thorough professional. I plan films right from the conception of an idea to its final execution.

Dev Anand

BabyPicturePlanProfessionalRight

There's sadness to anyone that dies before their time, and specifically ones that seem to affect people in a positive way. It doesn't matter if it's Whitney Houston or a nameless, faceless person on the street. That's just as big of a tragedy for me.

Chris Cornell

PositiveTimePeopleMeSadnessWay

When you're a hammer, everything looks like a nail; when you're a skilled intelligence professional, everything looks like a vital source for collection.

Chelsea Manning

IntelligenceYouProfessionalLooks

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