Be sober, be intelligent, be educated, rely on the tangible reality as long as you can.
ADAM ZAGAJEWSKIAs 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.
More Adam Zagajewski Quotes
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I drink from a small spring, / my thirst excedes the ocean.
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I don’t need to explain why it’s a curse.
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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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A little rain, a little blood. Black fingernails in August; and going berserk, going bananas.
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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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Remember that the act of writing is a tiny part of a bigger something.
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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 certain traveler who knew many continents was asked what he found most remarkable of all.
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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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Time takes life away and gives us memory, gold with flame, black with embers.
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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 tracing the labyrinthine ways of your mind, the haphazard vagaries of your thoughts at ease,
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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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And now, advice for beginning mystics.
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More ocean than terra firma. More shadow than form.
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