Be sober, be intelligent, be educated, rely on the tangible reality as long as you can.
ADAM ZAGAJEWSKIDefend 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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But also read against yourselves, read for questioning and impotence, for despair and erudition…
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I don’t need to explain why it’s a curse.
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Remember that the act of writing is a tiny part of a bigger something.
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A certain traveler who knew many continents was asked what he found most remarkable of all.
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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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Clear moments are so short. There is much more darkness.
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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.
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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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He replied: the ubiquity of sparrows.
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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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A little rain, a little blood. Black fingernails in August; and going berserk, going bananas.
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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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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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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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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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