“And yet the world is different from what it seems to be
and we are other than how we see ourselves in our ravings.”
"Ars Poetica?"
Context: There was a time when only wise books were read
helping us to bear our pain and misery.
This, after all, is not quite the same
as leafing through a thousand works fresh from psychiatric clinics. And yet the world is different from what it seems to be
and we are other than how we see ourselves in our ravings.
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Czeslaw Milosz 106
Polish, poet, diplomat, prosaist, writer, and translator 1911–2004Related quotes

Source: Discipleship (1937), The Hidden Righteousness, p. 158.

As quoted in Messenger Of The Heart: The Book Of Angelus Silesius, With Observations by Frederick Franck (2005), p. 36

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2015, Address to the People of India (January 2015)

“What more our folly shows,
Than while we others seek, ourselves to lose?”
Book XXIV, line 7
Translations, Orlando Furioso of Ludovico Ariosto (1773)