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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Once in a while it vanishes – in the sense that I become deaf to beauty for a week or two or three.
ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI
More ocean than terra firma. More shadow than form.
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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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This coming and going of the inner life – because this is what it is – is a curse and a blessing.
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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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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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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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He replied: the ubiquity of sparrows.
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Remember that the act of writing is a tiny part of a bigger something.
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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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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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This day’s nothingness as if from spite became a flame and scorched the lips of children and poets.
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I drink from a small spring, / my thirst excedes the ocean.
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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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