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More ocean than terra firma. More shadow than form.

Adam Zagajewski

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.
ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI

Anand Thakur
Be sober, be intelligent, be educated, rely on the tangible reality as long as you can.
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Educated Intelligent Long Sober Tangible
And also read those whose darkness or malice or madness or greatness you can’t understand because only in this way will you grow, outlive yourself, and become what you are.
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Darkness Greatness Life Madness Malice Outline Understand
And tracing the labyrinthine ways of your mind, the haphazard vagaries of your thoughts at ease,
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Ease Hahazard Labyrinthine Mind Tracing Varies Way
Remember that the act of writing is a tiny part of a bigger something.
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Act Bigger Remember Something Tiny Writing
This day’s nothingness as if from spite became a flame and scorched the lips of children and poets.
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Children Day Flame Lip Nothingness Poet Scorched Spite
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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Amazingly Carelessly End Loss Mental Odd Surplus Unabashed
Once in a while it vanishes – in the sense that I become deaf to beauty for a week or two or three.
ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI

Anand Thakur
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 ZAGAJEWSKI

Anand Thakur
I don’t need to explain why it’s a curse.
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Curse Explain Need
More ocean than terra firma. More shadow than form.
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Firma Form More Ocean Terra
Clear moments are so short. There is much more darkness.
ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI

Anand Thakur
Gabriel Levin’s book is a journey through time and through entrenched animosities of the Middle East.
ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI

Animosity Book East Entrenched Islamic Journey Middle Pain Through Time
This coming and going of the inner life – because this is what it is – is a curse and a blessing.
ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI

Anand Thakur
In summer the empire of insects spreads.
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Empire Insect Spread Summer
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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Boson Dozen Entrapped Heatwave Hurricane Mind Raging Scorching Swirling Tropical Volcano Whirlwind

More ocean than terra firma. More shadow than form.

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