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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.

Adam Zagajewski

Be sober, be intelligent, be educated, rely on the tangible reality as long as you can.
ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI

Educated Intelligent Long Sober Tangible
Once in a while it vanishes – in the sense that I become deaf to beauty for a week or two or three.
ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI

Anand Thakur
There exists a meaning, hidden from day to day, but accessible in moments of greatest attentiveness, in those moments when consciousness loves the world.
ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI

Anand Thakur
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.
ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI

Anand Thakur
But also read against yourselves, read for questioning and impotence, for despair and erudition…
ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI

Against Also Despair Erudition Impotence Questioning Read Yourselves
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.
ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI

Darkness Greatness Life Madness Malice Outline Understand
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.
ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI

Boson Dozen Entrapped Heatwave Hurricane Mind Raging Scorching Swirling Tropical Volcano Whirlwind
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 ZAGAJEWSKI

Anand Thakur
Gabriel Levin’s book is a journey through time and through entrenched animosities of the Middle East.
ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI

Animosity Book East Entrenched Islamic Journey Middle Pain Through Time
A blessing because it brings about a movement, an energy which, when it peaks, creates a poem. Or a moment of happiness.
ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI

Blessing Create Energy Happiness Moment Movement Peak
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
Human life and objects and trees vibrate with mysterious meanings, which can be deciphered like cuneiform writing.
ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI

Anand Thakur
He replied: the ubiquity of sparrows.
ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI

Reply Sparrow Ubiquity
Defend the value of the spiritual experience and if somebody tells you it’s an old fashioned notion, laugh loudly and serenely.
ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI

Defend Experience Fashioned Loudly Notion Old Serenely Somebody Spiritual Value
A brilliant poet is at work here-a poet in the rugged landscape of conflict and pain.
ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI

Brillant Conflict Landscape Pain Poet Work
This coming and going of the inner life – because this is what it is – is a curse and a blessing.
ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI

Anand Thakur

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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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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