But I was only a chaotic walker, nobody could stop me; even a totalitarian state was not able to control my daydreams, my poetic fascinations, the pattern of my walking.
ADAM ZAGAJEWSKIA certain traveler who knew many continents was asked what he found most remarkable of all.
More Adam Zagajewski Quotes
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Gabriel Levin’s book is a journey through time and through entrenched animosities of the Middle East.
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Be sober, be intelligent, be educated, rely on the tangible reality as long as you can.
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Clear moments are so short. There is much more darkness.
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This coming and going of the inner life – because this is what it is – is a curse and a blessing.
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This day’s nothingness as if from spite became a flame and scorched the lips of children and poets.
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A little rain, a little blood. Black fingernails in August; and going berserk, going bananas.
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As if entrapped in a tropical heatwave, with dozens of whirlwinds swirling in one’s mind, one thinks of a way out, or a way in: out of the scorching bosom of a volcano, and in – into the centre of a raging hurricane.
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Read for yourselves, read for the sake of your inspiration, for the sweet turmoil in your lovely head.
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A brilliant poet is at work here-a poet in the rugged landscape of conflict and pain.
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Time takes life away and gives us memory, gold with flame, black with embers.
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He replied: the ubiquity of sparrows.
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In summer the empire of insects spreads.
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Once in a while it vanishes – in the sense that I become deaf to beauty for a week or two or three.
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I drink from a small spring, / my thirst excedes the ocean.
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A certain traveler who knew many continents was asked what he found most remarkable of all.
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