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.
ADAM ZAGAJEWSKIAnd 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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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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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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Remember that the act of writing is a tiny part of a bigger something.
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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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I drink from a small spring, / my thirst excedes the ocean.
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I don’t need to explain why it’s a curse.
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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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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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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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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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More ocean than terra firma. More shadow than form.
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A little rain, a little blood. Black fingernails in August; and going berserk, going bananas.
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