Once in a while it vanishes – in the sense that I become deaf to beauty for a week or two or three.
ADAM ZAGAJEWSKIThis day’s nothingness as if from spite became a flame and scorched the lips of children and poets.
More Adam Zagajewski Quotes
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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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He replied: the ubiquity of sparrows.
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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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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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I drink from a small spring, / my thirst excedes the ocean.
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But also read against yourselves, read for questioning and impotence, for despair and erudition…
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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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This day’s nothingness as if from spite became a flame and scorched the lips of children and poets.
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Time takes life away and gives us memory, gold with flame, black with embers.
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A certain traveler who knew many continents was asked what he found most remarkable of all.
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And now, advice for beginning mystics.
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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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In summer the empire of insects spreads.
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And tracing the labyrinthine ways of your mind, the haphazard vagaries of your thoughts at ease,
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