Read for yourselves, read for the sake of your inspiration, for the sweet turmoil in your lovely head.
ADAM ZAGAJEWSKIDefend the value of the spiritual experience and if somebody tells you it’s an old fashioned notion, laugh loudly and serenely.
More Adam Zagajewski Quotes
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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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Clear moments are so short. There is much more darkness.
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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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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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A brilliant poet is at work here-a poet in the rugged landscape of conflict and pain.
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And tracing the labyrinthine ways of your mind, the haphazard vagaries of your thoughts at ease,
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A certain traveler who knew many continents was asked what he found most remarkable of all.
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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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Remember that the act of writing is a tiny part of a bigger something.
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A little rain, a little blood. Black fingernails in August; and going berserk, going bananas.
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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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I don’t need to explain why it’s a curse.
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Time takes life away and gives us memory, gold with flame, black with embers.
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But also read against yourselves, read for questioning and impotence, for despair and erudition…
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