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A little rain, a little blood. Black fingernails in August; and going berserk, going bananas.

Adam Zagajewski

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A certain traveler who knew many continents was asked what he found most remarkable of all.
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All Asked Certain Continent Found Many Remarkable Sparrow Traveler Ubiquity
More ocean than terra firma. More shadow than form.
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Firma Form More Ocean Terra
Defend the value of the spiritual experience and if somebody tells you it’s an old fashioned notion, laugh loudly and serenely.
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Defend Experience Fashioned Loudly Notion Old Serenely Somebody Spiritual Value
And tracing the labyrinthine ways of your mind, the haphazard vagaries of your thoughts at ease,
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Ease Hahazard Labyrinthine Mind Tracing Varies Way
Cities at daybreak are no one’s, and have no names. And I, too, have no name, dawn, the stars growing pale, the train picking up speed.
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Anand Thakur
He replied: the ubiquity of sparrows.
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Reply Sparrow Ubiquity
A blessing because it brings about a movement, an energy which, when it peaks, creates a poem. Or a moment of happiness.
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Blessing Create Energy Happiness Moment Movement Peak
A little rain, a little blood. Black fingernails in August; and going berserk, going bananas.
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August Banana Berserk Black Fingernail Blood Going Little Loss Rain Thinking
I don’t need to explain why it’s a curse.
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Curse Explain Need
I drink from a small spring, / my thirst excedes the ocean.
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Drink Ocean Small Spring
In summer the empire of insects spreads.
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Empire Insect Spread Summer
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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Darkness Greatness Life Madness Malice Outline Understand
This coming and going of the inner life – because this is what it is – is a curse and a blessing.
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Anand Thakur
Clear moments are so short. There is much more darkness.
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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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Children Day Flame Lip Nothingness Poet Scorched Spite
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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