But also read against yourselves, read for questioning and impotence, for despair and erudition…
ADAM ZAGAJEWSKIMore ocean than terra firma. More shadow than form.
More Adam Zagajewski Quotes
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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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Read for yourselves, read for the sake of your inspiration, for the sweet turmoil in your lovely head.
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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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Human life and objects and trees vibrate with mysterious meanings, which can be deciphered like cuneiform writing.
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Clear moments are so short. There is much more darkness.
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He replied: the ubiquity of sparrows.
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A little rain, a little blood. Black fingernails in August; and going berserk, going bananas.
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I don’t need to explain why it’s a curse.
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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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And tracing the labyrinthine ways of your mind, the haphazard vagaries of your thoughts at ease,
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In summer the empire of insects spreads.
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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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This day’s nothingness as if from spite became a flame and scorched the lips of children and poets.
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More ocean than terra firma. More shadow than form.
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Be sober, be intelligent, be educated, rely on the tangible reality as long as you can.
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