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A blessing because it brings about a movement, an energy which, when it peaks, creates a poem. Or a moment of happiness.

Adam Zagajewski

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There exists a meaning, hidden from day to day, but accessible in moments of greatest attentiveness, in those moments when consciousness loves the world.
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Anand Thakur
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
Human life and objects and trees vibrate with mysterious meanings, which can be deciphered like cuneiform writing.
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Anand Thakur
More ocean than terra firma. More shadow than form.
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The odds and ends of your mental surplus you carelessly throw at the world, one wants to be at a loss, in a maze; amazed, and amazingly unabashed.
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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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Anand Thakur
Remember that the act of writing is a tiny part of a bigger something.
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Act Bigger Remember Something Tiny Writing
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
Clear moments are so short. There is much more darkness.
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Anand Thakur
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
In summer the empire of insects spreads.
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Empire Insect Spread Summer
Be sober, be intelligent, be educated, rely on the tangible reality as long as you can.
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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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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
A little rain, a little blood. Black fingernails in August; and going berserk, going bananas.
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I don’t need to explain why it’s a curse.
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Curse Explain Need
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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This day’s nothingness as if from spite became a flame and scorched the lips of children and poets.
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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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Brillant Conflict Landscape Pain Poet Work
But also read against yourselves, read for questioning and impotence, for despair and erudition…
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Against Also Despair Erudition Impotence Questioning Read Yourselves
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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Anand Thakur
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 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 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
He replied: the ubiquity of sparrows.
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Reply Sparrow Ubiquity
Time takes life away and gives us memory, gold with flame, black with embers.
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