Be sober, be intelligent, be educated, rely on the tangible reality as long as you can.
ADAM ZAGAJEWSKIAnd 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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I drink from a small spring, / my thirst excedes the ocean.
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And 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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This day’s nothingness as if from spite became a flame and scorched the lips of children and poets.
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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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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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In summer the empire of insects spreads.
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He replied: the ubiquity of sparrows.
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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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Remember that the act of writing is a tiny part of a bigger something.
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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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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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A certain traveler who knew many continents was asked what he found most remarkable of all.
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