But also read against yourselves, read for questioning and impotence, for despair and erudition…
ADAM ZAGAJEWSKIBe sober, be intelligent, be educated, rely on the tangible reality as long as you can.
More Adam Zagajewski Quotes
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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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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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More ocean than terra firma. More shadow than form.
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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 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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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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As 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.
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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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This coming and going of the inner life – because this is what it is – is a curse and a blessing.
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I drink from a small spring, / my thirst excedes the ocean.
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And tracing the labyrinthine ways of your mind, the haphazard vagaries of your thoughts at ease,
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A certain traveler who knew many continents was asked what he found most remarkable of all.
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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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Time takes life away and gives us memory, gold with flame, black with embers.
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He replied: the ubiquity of sparrows.
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