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.
ADAM ZAGAJEWSKIA blessing because it brings about a movement, an energy which, when it peaks, creates a poem. Or a moment of happiness.
More Adam Zagajewski Quotes
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Time takes life away and gives us memory, gold with flame, black with embers.
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I don’t need to explain why it’s a curse.
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Remember that the act of writing is a tiny part of a bigger something.
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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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More ocean than terra firma. More shadow than form.
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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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Clear moments are so short. There is much more darkness.
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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 certain traveler who knew many continents was asked what he found most remarkable of all.
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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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And now, advice for beginning mystics.
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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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A brilliant poet is at work here-a poet in the rugged landscape of conflict and pain.
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A little rain, a little blood. Black fingernails in August; and going berserk, going bananas.
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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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