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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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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Gabriel Levin’s book is a journey through time and through entrenched animosities of the Middle East.
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Clear moments are so short. There is much more darkness.
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He replied: the ubiquity of sparrows.
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I don’t need to explain why it’s a curse.
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A little rain, a little blood. Black fingernails in August; and going berserk, going bananas.
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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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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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And tracing the labyrinthine ways of your mind, the haphazard vagaries of your thoughts at ease,
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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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But also read against yourselves, read for questioning and impotence, for despair and erudition…
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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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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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Read for yourselves, read for the sake of your inspiration, for the sweet turmoil in your lovely head.
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