But also read against yourselves, read for questioning and impotence, for despair and erudition…
ADAM ZAGAJEWSKITime takes life away and gives us memory, gold with flame, black with embers.
More Adam Zagajewski Quotes
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A certain traveler who knew many continents was asked what he found most remarkable of all.
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In summer the empire of insects spreads.
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I don’t need to explain why it’s a curse.
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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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More ocean than terra firma. More shadow than form.
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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.
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Time takes life away and gives us memory, gold with flame, black with embers.
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Remember that the act of writing is a tiny part of a bigger something.
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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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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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I drink from a small spring, / my thirst excedes the ocean.
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Be sober, be intelligent, be educated, rely on the tangible reality as long as you can.
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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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And tracing the labyrinthine ways of your mind, the haphazard vagaries of your thoughts at ease,
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