This day’s nothingness as if from spite became a flame and scorched the lips of children and poets.
ADAM ZAGAJEWSKIRead for yourselves, read for the sake of your inspiration, for the sweet turmoil in your lovely head.
More Adam Zagajewski Quotes
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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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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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And tracing the labyrinthine ways of your mind, the haphazard vagaries of your thoughts at ease,
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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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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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I don’t need to explain why it’s a curse.
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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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Remember that the act of writing is a tiny part of a bigger something.
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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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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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Time takes life away and gives us memory, gold with flame, black with embers.
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