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Read for yourselves, read for the sake of your inspiration, for the sweet turmoil in your lovely head.

Adam Zagajewski

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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Boson Dozen Entrapped Heatwave Hurricane Mind Raging Scorching Swirling Tropical Volcano Whirlwind
Time takes life away and gives us memory, gold with flame, black with embers.
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Away Black Ember Flame Giving Gold Memories Memory Take
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
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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Amazingly Carelessly End Loss Mental Odd Surplus Unabashed
Be sober, be intelligent, be educated, rely on the tangible reality as long as you can.
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Educated Intelligent Long Sober Tangible
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
What’s astonishing and refreshing is his ability to combine the reporter’s perspective with a deep knowledge of poetry, including pre-Islamic Arab poems.
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Ability Astonishing Combine Deep Knowledge Perspective Poem Poetry Refreshing Religion Reporter
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
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
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
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
Clear moments are so short. There is much more darkness.
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Anand Thakur
Human life and objects and trees vibrate with mysterious meanings, which can be deciphered like cuneiform writing.
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Anand Thakur
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
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

Read for yourselves, read for the sake of your inspiration, for the sweet turmoil in your lovely head.

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