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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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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He replied: the ubiquity of sparrows.
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And now, advice for beginning mystics.
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I don’t need to explain why it’s a curse.
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Time takes life away and gives us memory, gold with flame, black with embers.
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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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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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Read for yourselves, read for the sake of your inspiration, for the sweet turmoil in your lovely head.
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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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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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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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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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This coming and going of the inner life – because this is what it is – is a curse and a blessing.
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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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