Gabriel Levin’s book is a journey through time and through entrenched animosities of the Middle East.
ADAM ZAGAJEWSKII drink from a small spring, / my thirst excedes the ocean.
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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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He replied: the ubiquity of sparrows.
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Remember that the act of writing is a tiny part of a bigger something.
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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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But also read against yourselves, read for questioning and impotence, for despair and erudition…
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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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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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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 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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Time takes life away and gives us memory, gold with flame, black with embers.
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I don’t need to explain why it’s a curse.
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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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In summer the empire of insects spreads.
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