Once in a while it vanishes – in the sense that I become deaf to beauty for a week or two or three.
ADAM ZAGAJEWSKIA certain traveler who knew many continents was asked what he found most remarkable of all.
More Adam Zagajewski Quotes
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Remember that the act of writing is a tiny part of a bigger something.
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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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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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And now, advice for beginning mystics.
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A little rain, a little blood. Black fingernails in August; and going berserk, going bananas.
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Be sober, be intelligent, be educated, rely on the tangible reality as long as you can.
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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 brilliant poet is at work here-a poet in the rugged landscape of conflict and pain.
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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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This coming and going of the inner life – because this is what it is – is a curse and a blessing.
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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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A certain traveler who knew many continents was asked what he found most remarkable of all.
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He replied: the ubiquity of sparrows.
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