But I was only a chaotic walker, nobody could stop me; even a totalitarian state was not able to control my daydreams, my poetic fascinations, the pattern of my walking.
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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More ocean than terra firma. More shadow than form.
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Clear moments are so short. There is much more darkness.
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Be sober, be intelligent, be educated, rely on the tangible reality as long as you can.
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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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I don’t need to explain why it’s a curse.
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In summer the empire of insects spreads.
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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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He replied: the ubiquity of sparrows.
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And now, advice for beginning mystics.
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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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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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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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Human life and objects and trees vibrate with mysterious meanings, which can be deciphered like cuneiform writing.
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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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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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