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 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 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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Human life and objects and trees vibrate with mysterious meanings, which can be deciphered like cuneiform writing.
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Clear moments are so short. There is much more darkness.
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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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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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A brilliant poet is at work here-a poet in the rugged landscape of conflict and pain.
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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.
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A little rain, a little blood. Black fingernails in August; and going berserk, going bananas.
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And now, advice for beginning mystics.
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A certain traveler who knew many continents was asked what he found most remarkable of all.
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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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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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He replied: the ubiquity of sparrows.
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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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