A blessing because it brings about a movement, an energy which, when it peaks, creates a poem. Or a moment of happiness.
ADAM ZAGAJEWSKIAnd 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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What’s astonishing and refreshing is his ability to combine the reporter’s perspective with a deep knowledge of poetry, including pre-Islamic Arab poems.
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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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I drink from a small spring, / my thirst excedes the ocean.
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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 now, advice for beginning mystics.
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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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A brilliant poet is at work here-a poet in the rugged landscape of conflict and pain.
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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 certain traveler who knew many continents was asked what he found most remarkable of all.
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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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He replied: the ubiquity of sparrows.
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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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In summer the empire of insects spreads.
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Clear moments are so short. There is much more darkness.
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