But also read against yourselves, read for questioning and impotence, for despair and erudition…
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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I drink from a small spring, / my thirst excedes the ocean.
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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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Read for yourselves, read for the sake of your inspiration, for the sweet turmoil in your lovely head.
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Be sober, be intelligent, be educated, rely on the tangible reality as long as you can.
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And now, advice for beginning mystics.
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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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More ocean than terra firma. More shadow than form.
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And also read those whose darkness or malice or madness or greatness you can’t understand because only in this way will you grow, outlive yourself, and become what you are.
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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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And tracing the labyrinthine ways of your mind, the haphazard vagaries of your thoughts at ease,
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I don’t need to explain why it’s a curse.
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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.
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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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Clear moments are so short. There is much more darkness.
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Time takes life away and gives us memory, gold with flame, black with embers.
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