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He replied: the ubiquity of sparrows.

Adam Zagajewski

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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Anand Thakur
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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Anand Thakur
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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Darkness Greatness Life Madness Malice Outline Understand
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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Anand Thakur
Time takes life away and gives us memory, gold with flame, black with embers.
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Away Black Ember Flame Giving Gold Memories Memory Take
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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Ability Astonishing Combine Deep Knowledge Perspective Poem Poetry Refreshing Religion Reporter
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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Amazingly Carelessly End Loss Mental Odd Surplus Unabashed
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
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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Blessing Create Energy Happiness Moment Movement Peak
Clear moments are so short. There is much more darkness.
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Anand Thakur
I don’t need to explain why it’s a curse.
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Curse Explain Need
Gabriel Levin’s book is a journey through time and through entrenched animosities of the Middle East.
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Animosity Book East Entrenched Islamic Journey Middle Pain Through Time
And tracing the labyrinthine ways of your mind, the haphazard vagaries of your thoughts at ease,
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Ease Hahazard Labyrinthine Mind Tracing Varies Way
Remember that the act of writing is a tiny part of a bigger something.
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Act Bigger Remember Something Tiny Writing
Human life and objects and trees vibrate with mysterious meanings, which can be deciphered like cuneiform writing.
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Anand Thakur
A little rain, a little blood. Black fingernails in August; and going berserk, going bananas.
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August Banana Berserk Black Fingernail Blood Going Little Loss Rain Thinking

He replied: the ubiquity of sparrows.

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