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.
ADAM ZAGAJEWSKIAnd now, advice for beginning mystics.
More Adam Zagajewski Quotes
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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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Clear moments are so short. There is much more darkness.
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And tracing the labyrinthine ways of your mind, the haphazard vagaries of your thoughts at ease,
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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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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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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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Gabriel Levin’s book is a journey through time and through entrenched animosities of the Middle East.
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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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This coming and going of the inner life – because this is what it is – is a curse and a blessing.
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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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This day’s nothingness as if from spite became a flame and scorched the lips of children and poets.
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And now, advice for beginning mystics.
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More ocean than terra firma. More shadow than form.
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Be sober, be intelligent, be educated, rely on the tangible reality as long as you can.
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