Czeslaw Milosz Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

TruthTreeLieSmallRealityGrow

Do not yield. Do not flinch. Stand up. Stand up with our President and fight. We're Americans. We're Americans, and we'll never surrender. They will.

John McCain

FightStand UpStandSurrenderNever

Any great warrior is also a scholar, and a poet, and an artist.

Steven Seagal

GreatWarriorArtistScholarPoet

I play the harmonica. The only way I can play is if I get my car going really fast, and stick it out the window.

Steven Wright

CarWindowFastI CanPlayWay

I've been trying to really live in the moment because I will never get this part of it back. As soon as the movie comes out, everyone will turn it into what they believe it is, so I've really been trying to appreciate every minute of now. Because I know what's coming.

Rooney Mara

LiveMomentBelieveAppreciateBack

It takes four private-sector jobs to support every public-sector employee.

Russell Pearce

SupportEmployeeFourEveryTakes

If I can give a very substantial injection of humanistic thinking into corporations, boy, that would change things a lot.

Ruth J. Simmons

ChangeThinkingI CanBoyThings

Art in the classroom not only spurs creativity, it also inspires learning.

Mickey Hart

LearningArtCreativityClassroom

Keeping small nations enslaved because of the deals between the great nations or because of any pragmatic considerations that might have been there are totally unacceptable.

Mikheil Saakashvili

GreatSmallBecausePragmaticBeen

At certain points, I was afraid there was something - a missing chink of skill - that was going to prevent me from having a movie that was financially successful. That frightened me.

Jonathan Demme

MeSkillAfraidMissingSuccessful

One common desire that every human being has is to love and be loved. At the end of our lives, it's how we measure our lives.

Denise Di Novi

LoveEndLovedMeasureDesireHuman

I try to share a lot of my life on Snapchat, Twitter, Instagram, everything. I really like interacting with fans on Twitter and answering their questions and just getting to know them because it's cool for them to have people who are connecting with my music reach out and show interest.

Daya

LifeMusicPeopleCoolMy LifeKnow

James Thurber was an inspiration because his drawings were so primitive. I am self-taught - I didn't go to art school - so I thought when I started doing them, 'If James Thurber can be a cartoonist, I can,' because his stuff is very raw.

Bruce Eric Kaplan

ArtSchoolI AmThoughtDoingI Can

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