Time takes life away and gives us memory, gold with flame, black with embers.
ADAM ZAGAJEWSKIThe 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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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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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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I drink from a small spring, / my thirst excedes the ocean.
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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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In summer the empire of insects spreads.
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And now, advice for beginning mystics.
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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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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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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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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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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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A brilliant poet is at work here-a poet in the rugged landscape of conflict and pain.
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