Read for yourselves, read for the sake of your inspiration, for the sweet turmoil in your lovely head.
ADAM ZAGAJEWSKIAnd 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.
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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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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Remember that the act of writing is a tiny part of a bigger something.
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I drink from a small spring, / my thirst excedes the ocean.
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And tracing the labyrinthine ways of your mind, the haphazard vagaries of your thoughts at ease,
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And now, advice for beginning mystics.
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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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A certain traveler who knew many continents was asked what he found most remarkable of all.
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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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Time takes life away and gives us memory, gold with flame, black with embers.
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He replied: the ubiquity of sparrows.
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Be sober, be intelligent, be educated, rely on the tangible reality as long as you can.
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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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Defend the value of the spiritual experience and if somebody tells you it’s an old fashioned notion, laugh loudly and serenely.
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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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