Human life and objects and trees vibrate with mysterious meanings, which can be deciphered like cuneiform writing.
ADAM ZAGAJEWSKIMore ocean than terra firma. More shadow than form.
More Adam Zagajewski Quotes
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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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A certain traveler who knew many continents was asked what he found most remarkable of all.
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A little rain, a little blood. Black fingernails in August; and going berserk, going bananas.
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In summer the empire of insects spreads.
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Time takes life away and gives us memory, gold with flame, black with embers.
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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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And tracing the labyrinthine ways of your mind, the haphazard vagaries of your thoughts at ease,
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He replied: the ubiquity of sparrows.
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Gabriel Levin’s book is a journey through time and through entrenched animosities of the Middle East.
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More ocean than terra firma. More shadow than form.
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Remember that the act of writing is a tiny part of a bigger something.
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Clear moments are so short. There is much more darkness.
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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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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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But also read against yourselves, read for questioning and impotence, for despair and erudition…
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