This day’s nothingness as if from spite became a flame and scorched the lips of children and poets.
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.
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In summer the empire of insects spreads.
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And now, advice for beginning mystics.
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He replied: the ubiquity of sparrows.
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Time takes life away and gives us memory, gold with flame, black with embers.
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I don’t need to explain why it’s a curse.
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A little rain, a little blood. Black fingernails in August; and going berserk, going bananas.
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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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Be sober, be intelligent, be educated, rely on the tangible reality as long as you can.
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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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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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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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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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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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