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This coming and going of the inner life – because this is what it is – is a curse and a blessing.

Adam Zagajewski

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A certain traveler who knew many continents was asked what he found most remarkable of all.
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All Asked Certain Continent Found Many Remarkable Sparrow Traveler Ubiquity
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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A blessing because it brings about a movement, an energy which, when it peaks, creates a poem. Or a moment of happiness.
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In summer the empire of insects spreads.
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Empire Insect Spread Summer
This coming and going of the inner life – because this is what it is – is a curse and a blessing.
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And tracing the labyrinthine ways of your mind, the haphazard vagaries of your thoughts at ease,
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Ease Hahazard Labyrinthine Mind Tracing Varies Way
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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Defend Experience Fashioned Loudly Notion Old Serenely Somebody Spiritual Value
He replied: the ubiquity of sparrows.
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Reply Sparrow Ubiquity
This day’s nothingness as if from spite became a flame and scorched the lips of children and poets.
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Children Day Flame Lip Nothingness Poet Scorched Spite
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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Ability Astonishing Combine Deep Knowledge Perspective Poem Poetry Refreshing Religion Reporter
But also read against yourselves, read for questioning and impotence, for despair and erudition…
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Against Also Despair Erudition Impotence Questioning Read Yourselves
I drink from a small spring, / my thirst excedes the ocean.
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Drink Ocean Small Spring
Be sober, be intelligent, be educated, rely on the tangible reality as long as you can.
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Educated Intelligent Long Sober Tangible
A little rain, a little blood. Black fingernails in August; and going berserk, going bananas.
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More ocean than terra firma. More shadow than form.
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Firma Form More Ocean Terra
I don’t need to explain why it’s a curse.
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Curse Explain Need

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