A brilliant poet is at work here-a poet in the rugged landscape of conflict and pain.
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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This day’s nothingness as if from spite became a flame and scorched the lips of children and poets.
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In summer the empire of insects spreads.
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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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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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This coming and going of the inner life – because this is what it is – is a curse and a blessing.
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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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But also read against yourselves, read for questioning and impotence, for despair and erudition…
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Be sober, be intelligent, be educated, rely on the tangible reality as long as you can.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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