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A little rain, a little blood. Black fingernails in August; and going berserk, going bananas.

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And now, advice for beginning mystics.
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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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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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Anand Thakur
Clear moments are so short. There is much more darkness.
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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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Remember that the act of writing is a tiny part of a bigger something.
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But I was only a chaotic walker, nobody could stop me; even a totalitarian state was not able to control my daydreams, my poetic fascinations, the pattern of my walking.
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Anand Thakur
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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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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He replied: the ubiquity of sparrows.
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Time takes life away and gives us memory, gold with flame, black with embers.
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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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More ocean than terra firma. More shadow than form.
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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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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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