This coming and going of the inner life – because this is what it is – is a curse and a blessing.
ADAM ZAGAJEWSKIRemember 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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Remember that the act of writing is a tiny part of a bigger something.
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And tracing the labyrinthine ways of your mind, the haphazard vagaries of your thoughts at ease,
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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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Read for yourselves, read for the sake of your inspiration, for the sweet turmoil in your lovely head.
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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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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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A little rain, a little blood. Black fingernails in August; and going berserk, going bananas.
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In summer the empire of insects spreads.
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I drink from a small spring, / my thirst excedes the ocean.
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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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I don’t need to explain why it’s a curse.
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More ocean than terra firma. More shadow than form.
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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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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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