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.
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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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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But also read against yourselves, read for questioning and impotence, for despair and erudition…
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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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More ocean than terra firma. More shadow than form.
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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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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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Human life and objects and trees vibrate with mysterious meanings, which can be deciphered like cuneiform writing.
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Clear moments are so short. There is much more darkness.
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Time takes life away and gives us memory, gold with flame, black with embers.
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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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This coming and going of the inner life – because this is what it is – is a curse and a blessing.
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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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And now, advice for beginning mystics.
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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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