Defend the value of the spiritual experience and if somebody tells you it’s an old fashioned notion, laugh loudly and serenely.
ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI
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.
More Adam Zagajewski Quotes
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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 little rain, a little blood. Black fingernails in August; and going berserk, going bananas.
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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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More ocean than terra firma. More shadow than form.
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Be sober, be intelligent, be educated, rely on the tangible reality as long as you can.
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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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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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Remember that the act of writing is a tiny part of a bigger something.
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I drink from a small spring, / my thirst excedes the ocean.
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And now, advice for beginning mystics.
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I don’t need to explain why it’s a curse.
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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.
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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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A certain traveler who knew many continents was asked what he found most remarkable of all.
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