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 ZAGAJEWSKIWhat’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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He replied: the ubiquity of sparrows.
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More ocean than terra firma. More shadow than form.
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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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Remember that the act of writing is a tiny part of a bigger something.
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But also read against yourselves, read for questioning and impotence, for despair and erudition…
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Clear moments are so short. There is much more darkness.
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And now, advice for beginning mystics.
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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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In summer the empire of insects spreads.
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A little rain, a little blood. Black fingernails in August; and going berserk, going bananas.
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Be sober, be intelligent, be educated, rely on the tangible reality as long as you can.
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Time takes life away and gives us memory, gold with flame, black with embers.
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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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