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And now, advice for beginning mystics.

Adam Zagajewski

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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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Read for yourselves, read for the sake of your inspiration, for the sweet turmoil in your lovely head.
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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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Clear moments are so short. There is much more darkness.
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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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And tracing the labyrinthine ways of your mind, the haphazard vagaries of your thoughts at ease,
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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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This day’s nothingness as if from spite became a flame and scorched the lips of children and poets.
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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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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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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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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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More ocean than terra firma. More shadow than form.
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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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Remember that the act of writing is a tiny part of a bigger something.
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Act Bigger Remember Something Tiny Writing

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