Clear moments are so short. There is much more darkness.
ADAM ZAGAJEWSKIDefend 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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Gabriel Levin’s book is a journey through time and through entrenched animosities of the Middle East.
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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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And tracing the labyrinthine ways of your mind, the haphazard vagaries of your thoughts at ease,
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I don’t need to explain why it’s a curse.
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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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Remember that the act of writing is a tiny part of a bigger something.
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But I was only a chaotic walker, nobody could stop me; even a totalitarian state was not able to control my daydreams, my poetic fascinations, the pattern of my walking.
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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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I drink from a small spring, / my thirst excedes the ocean.
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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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A certain traveler who knew many continents was asked what he found most remarkable of all.
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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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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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Be sober, be intelligent, be educated, rely on the tangible reality as long as you can.
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