There exists a meaning, hidden from day to day, but accessible in moments of greatest attentiveness, in those moments when consciousness loves the world.
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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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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I don’t need to explain why it’s a curse.
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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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He replied: the ubiquity of sparrows.
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But also read against yourselves, read for questioning and impotence, for despair and erudition…
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I drink from a small spring, / my thirst excedes the ocean.
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Clear moments are so short. There is much more darkness.
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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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Read for yourselves, read for the sake of your inspiration, for the sweet turmoil in your lovely head.
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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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Be sober, be intelligent, be educated, rely on the tangible reality as long as you can.
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More ocean than terra firma. More shadow than form.
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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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Remember that the act of writing is a tiny part of a bigger something.
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