Time takes life away and gives us memory, gold with flame, black with embers.
ADAM ZAGAJEWSKIA 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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This day’s nothingness as if from spite became a flame and scorched the lips of children and poets.
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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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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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This coming and going of the inner life – because this is what it is – is a curse and a blessing.
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A little rain, a little blood. Black fingernails in August; and going berserk, going bananas.
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Clear moments are so short. There is much more darkness.
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Remember that the act of writing is a tiny part of a bigger something.
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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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Cities 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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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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More ocean than terra firma. More shadow than form.
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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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But also read against yourselves, read for questioning and impotence, for despair and erudition…
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