And tracing the labyrinthine ways of your mind, the haphazard vagaries of your thoughts at ease,
ADAM ZAGAJEWSKIBut also read against yourselves, read for questioning and impotence, for despair and erudition…
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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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I don’t need to explain why it’s a curse.
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But also read against yourselves, read for questioning and impotence, for despair and erudition…
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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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Remember that the act of writing is a tiny part of a bigger something.
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In summer the empire of insects spreads.
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Be sober, be intelligent, be educated, rely on the tangible reality as long as you can.
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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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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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Clear moments are so short. There is much more darkness.
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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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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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