Human life and objects and trees vibrate with mysterious meanings, which can be deciphered like cuneiform writing.
ADAM ZAGAJEWSKIAnd tracing the labyrinthine ways of your mind, the haphazard vagaries of your thoughts at ease,
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Time takes life away and gives us memory, gold with flame, black with embers.
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And tracing the labyrinthine ways of your mind, the haphazard vagaries of your thoughts at ease,
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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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This day’s nothingness as if from spite became a flame and scorched the lips of children and poets.
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And now, advice for beginning mystics.
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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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He replied: the ubiquity of sparrows.
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I drink from a small spring, / my thirst excedes the ocean.
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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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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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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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In summer the empire of insects spreads.
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I don’t need to explain why it’s a curse.
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Be sober, be intelligent, be educated, rely on the tangible reality as long as you can.
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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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