I drink from a small spring, / my thirst excedes the ocean.
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
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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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Remember that the act of writing is a tiny part of a bigger something.
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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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A little rain, a little blood. Black fingernails in August; and going berserk, going bananas.
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But also read against yourselves, read for questioning and impotence, for despair and erudition…
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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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Be sober, be intelligent, be educated, rely on the tangible reality as long as you can.
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A brilliant poet is at work here-a poet in the rugged landscape of conflict and pain.
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In summer the empire of insects spreads.
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This coming and going of the inner life – because this is what it is – is a curse and a blessing.
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This day’s nothingness as if from spite became a flame and scorched the lips of children and poets.
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Clear moments are so short. There is much more darkness.
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And tracing the labyrinthine ways of your mind, the haphazard vagaries of your thoughts at ease,
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I don’t need to explain why it’s a curse.
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Time takes life away and gives us memory, gold with flame, black with embers.
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