Milosz Poems Quotes & Sayings

I came to the conclusion is that we have a very shallow view of human nature in the policy world. We're really good at talking about material things, really bad at talking about emotions, really good at stuff we can count, really bad at the deeper stuff that actually drives behavior. — David Brooks

If Jesus was here, do you think Jesus would show me any love? Do you think Jesus would love me? — Mike Tyson

A man is lying under machine-gun fire on a street in an embattled city. He looks at the pavement and sees a very amusing sight: the cobblestones are standing upright like the quills of a porcupine. The bullets hitting against their edges displace and tilt them. Such moments in the consciousness of a man judge all poets and philosophers. Let us suppose, too, that a certain poet was the hero of the literary cafes, and wherever he went was regarded with curiosity and awe. Yet his poems, recalled in such a moment, suddenly seem diseased and highbrow. The vision of the cobblestones is unquestionably real, and poetry based on an equally naked experience could survive triumphantly that judgment day of man's illusions. — Czeslaw Milosz

You wait. Everyone has an Antarctic. — Thomas Pynchon

As Spengler observed, all urbanized societies seem to develop a subconscious death wish, making individuals indifferent to the survival of their families and their race. — Revilo P. Oliver

Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbor to have them through envy. — Aristotle.

He was a poet -oh all men are when they're in love. — Eric Gamalinda

In those small towns you come to realize how the cathedrals utterly outgrew their whole environment. — Rainer Maria Rilke

No one has ever successfully painted or photographed a redwood tree. The feeling they produce is not transferable. From them comes silence and awe. — John Steinbeck

I CAN MAKE YOUR PUSSY WHISTLE LIKE THE ANDY GRIFFITH THEME SONG. — Drake