But also read against yourselves, read for questioning and impotence, for despair and erudition…
ADAM ZAGAJEWSKIA certain traveler who knew many continents was asked what he found most remarkable of all.
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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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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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This day’s nothingness as if from spite became a flame and scorched the lips of children and poets.
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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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And tracing the labyrinthine ways of your mind, the haphazard vagaries of your thoughts at ease,
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He replied: the ubiquity of sparrows.
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A certain traveler who knew many continents was asked what he found most remarkable of all.
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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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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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I don’t need to explain why it’s a curse.
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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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More ocean than terra firma. More shadow than form.
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Be sober, be intelligent, be educated, rely on the tangible reality as long as you can.
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Clear moments are so short. There is much more darkness.
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