Defend the value of the spiritual experience and if somebody tells you it’s an old fashioned notion, laugh loudly and serenely.
ADAM ZAGAJEWSKIMore ocean than terra firma. More shadow than form.
More Adam Zagajewski Quotes
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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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And tracing the labyrinthine ways of your mind, the haphazard vagaries of your thoughts at ease,
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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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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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A brilliant poet is at work here-a poet in the rugged landscape of conflict and pain.
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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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Read for yourselves, read for the sake of your inspiration, for the sweet turmoil in your lovely head.
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More ocean than terra firma. More shadow than form.
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Be sober, be intelligent, be educated, rely on the tangible reality as long as you can.
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In summer the empire of insects spreads.
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He replied: the ubiquity of sparrows.
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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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