But also read against yourselves, read for questioning and impotence, for despair and erudition…
ADAM ZAGAJEWSKIAnd tracing the labyrinthine ways of your mind, the haphazard vagaries of your thoughts at ease,
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He replied: the ubiquity of sparrows.
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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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Human life and objects and trees vibrate with mysterious meanings, which can be deciphered like cuneiform writing.
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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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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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Time takes life away and gives us memory, gold with flame, black with embers.
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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.
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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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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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More ocean than terra firma. More shadow than form.
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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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Be sober, be intelligent, be educated, rely on the tangible reality as long as you can.
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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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