Clear moments are so short. There is much more darkness.
ADAM ZAGAJEWSKIA brilliant poet is at work here-a poet in the rugged landscape of conflict and pain.
More Adam Zagajewski Quotes
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Gabriel Levin’s book is a journey through time and through entrenched animosities of the Middle East.
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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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A little rain, a little blood. Black fingernails in August; and going berserk, going bananas.
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He replied: the ubiquity of sparrows.
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Time takes life away and gives us memory, gold with flame, black with embers.
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I drink from a small spring, / my thirst excedes the ocean.
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Be sober, be intelligent, be educated, rely on the tangible reality as long as you can.
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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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This day’s nothingness as if from spite became a flame and scorched the lips of children and poets.
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In summer the empire of insects spreads.
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More ocean than terra firma. More shadow than form.
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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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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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