Clear moments are so short. There is much more darkness.
ADAM ZAGAJEWSKIDefend the value of the spiritual experience and if somebody tells you it’s an old fashioned notion, laugh loudly and serenely.
More Adam Zagajewski Quotes
-
-
Once in a while it vanishes – in the sense that I become deaf to beauty for a week or two or three.
ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI -
Gabriel Levin’s book is a journey through time and through entrenched animosities of the Middle East.
ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI -
He replied: the ubiquity of sparrows.
ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI -
And tracing the labyrinthine ways of your mind, the haphazard vagaries of your thoughts at ease,
ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI -
More ocean than terra firma. More shadow than form.
ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI -
Time takes life away and gives us memory, gold with flame, black with embers.
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.
ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI -
Read for yourselves, read for the sake of your inspiration, for the sweet turmoil in your lovely head.
ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI -
Remember that the act of writing is a tiny part of a bigger something.
ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI -
This day’s nothingness as if from spite became a flame and scorched the lips of children and poets.
ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI -
And now, advice for beginning mystics.
ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI -
A certain traveler who knew many continents was asked what he found most remarkable of all.
ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI -
A blessing because it brings about a movement, an energy which, when it peaks, creates a poem. Or a moment of happiness.
ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI -
Defend the value of the spiritual experience and if somebody tells you it’s an old fashioned notion, laugh loudly and serenely.
ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI -
I don’t need to explain why it’s a curse.
ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI