I drink from a small spring, / my thirst excedes the ocean.
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.
More Adam Zagajewski Quotes
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I don’t need to explain why it’s a curse.
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Remember that the act of writing is a tiny part of a bigger something.
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He replied: the ubiquity of sparrows.
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A certain traveler who knew many continents was asked what he found most remarkable of all.
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Time takes life away and gives us memory, gold with flame, black with embers.
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Be sober, be intelligent, be educated, rely on the tangible reality as long as you can.
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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 brilliant poet is at work here-a poet in the rugged landscape of conflict and pain.
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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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And now, advice for beginning mystics.
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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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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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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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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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