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And tracing the labyrinthine ways of your mind, the haphazard vagaries of your thoughts at ease,

Adam Zagajewski

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

Against Also Despair Erudition Impotence Questioning Read Yourselves
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
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
Read for yourselves, read for the sake of your inspiration, for the sweet turmoil in your lovely head.
ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI

Greatness Head Inspiration Lovely Sake Sweet Turmoil Yourselves
Time takes life away and gives us memory, gold with flame, black with embers.
ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI

Away Black Ember Flame Giving Gold Memories Memory Take
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
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
I drink from a small spring, / my thirst excedes the ocean.
ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI

Drink Ocean Small Spring
And tracing the labyrinthine ways of your mind, the haphazard vagaries of your thoughts at ease,
ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI

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.
ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI

Anand Thakur
Human life and objects and trees vibrate with mysterious meanings, which can be deciphered like cuneiform writing.
ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI

Anand Thakur
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.
ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI

Amazingly Carelessly End Loss Mental Odd Surplus Unabashed
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.
ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI

Ability Astonishing Combine Deep Knowledge Perspective Poem Poetry Refreshing Religion Reporter
Clear moments are so short. There is much more darkness.
ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI

Anand Thakur

And tracing the labyrinthine ways of your mind, the haphazard vagaries of your thoughts at ease,

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