This day’s nothingness as if from spite became a flame and scorched the lips of children and poets.
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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And tracing the labyrinthine ways of your mind, the haphazard vagaries of your thoughts at ease,
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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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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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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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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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A certain traveler who knew many continents was asked what he found most remarkable of all.
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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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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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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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Be sober, be intelligent, be educated, rely on the tangible reality as long as you can.
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And now, advice for beginning mystics.
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Remember that the act of writing is a tiny part of a bigger something.
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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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