Clear moments are so short. There is much more darkness.
ADAM ZAGAJEWSKICities 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 brilliant poet is at work here-a poet in the rugged landscape of conflict and pain.
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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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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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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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But I was only a chaotic walker, nobody could stop me; even a totalitarian state was not able to control my daydreams, my poetic fascinations, the pattern of my walking.
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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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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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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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He replied: the ubiquity of sparrows.
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I drink from a small spring, / my thirst excedes the ocean.
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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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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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More ocean than terra firma. More shadow than form.
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