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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.

Adam Zagajewski

This coming and going of the inner life – because this is what it is – is a curse and a blessing.
ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI

Anand Thakur
A certain traveler who knew many continents was asked what he found most remarkable of all.
ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI

All Asked Certain Continent Found Many Remarkable Sparrow Traveler Ubiquity
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.
ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI

Anand Thakur
Be sober, be intelligent, be educated, rely on the tangible reality as long as you can.
ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI

Educated Intelligent Long Sober Tangible
A blessing because it brings about a movement, an energy which, when it peaks, creates a poem. Or a moment of happiness.
ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI

Blessing Create Energy Happiness Moment Movement Peak
Read for yourselves, read for the sake of your inspiration, for the sweet turmoil in your lovely head.
ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI

Greatness Head Inspiration Lovely Sake Sweet Turmoil Yourselves
He replied: the ubiquity of sparrows.
ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI

Reply Sparrow Ubiquity
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.
ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI

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.
ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI

Anand Thakur
And tracing the labyrinthine ways of your mind, the haphazard vagaries of your thoughts at ease,
ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI

Ease Hahazard Labyrinthine Mind Tracing Varies Way
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 ZAGAJEWSKI

Darkness Greatness Life Madness Malice Outline Understand
And now, advice for beginning mystics.
ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI

Advice Attitude Beginning Mystic Spiritual Writing
I don’t need to explain why it’s a curse.
ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI

Curse Explain Need
A brilliant poet is at work here-a poet in the rugged landscape of conflict and pain.
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Brillant Conflict Landscape Pain Poet Work
This day’s nothingness as if from spite became a flame and scorched the lips of children and poets.
ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI

Children Day Flame Lip Nothingness Poet Scorched Spite
Human life and objects and trees vibrate with mysterious meanings, which can be deciphered like cuneiform writing.
ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI

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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