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A certain traveler who knew many continents was asked what he found most remarkable of all.

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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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And now, advice for beginning mystics.
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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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A little rain, a little blood. Black fingernails in August; and going berserk, going bananas.
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Time takes life away and gives us memory, gold with flame, black with embers.
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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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But also read against yourselves, read for questioning and impotence, for despair and erudition…
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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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A brilliant poet is at work here-a poet in the rugged landscape of conflict and pain.
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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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Be sober, be intelligent, be educated, rely on the tangible reality as long as you can.
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I don’t need to explain why it’s a curse.
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I drink from a small spring, / my thirst excedes the ocean.
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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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In summer the empire of insects spreads.
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