A little rain, a little blood. Black fingernails in August; and going berserk, going bananas.
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.
More Adam Zagajewski Quotes
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I don’t need to explain why it’s a curse.
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And tracing the labyrinthine ways of your mind, the haphazard vagaries of your thoughts at ease,
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In summer the empire of insects spreads.
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I drink from a small spring, / my thirst excedes the ocean.
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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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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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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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Remember that the act of writing is a tiny part of a bigger something.
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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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And now, advice for beginning mystics.
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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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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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He replied: the ubiquity of sparrows.
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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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Read for yourselves, read for the sake of your inspiration, for the sweet turmoil in your lovely head.
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