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.
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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This day’s nothingness as if from spite became a flame and scorched the lips of children and poets.
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Be sober, be intelligent, be educated, rely on the tangible reality as long as you can.
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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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But also read against yourselves, read for questioning and impotence, for despair and erudition…
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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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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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Read for yourselves, read for the sake of your inspiration, for the sweet turmoil in your lovely head.
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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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More ocean than terra firma. More shadow than form.
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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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Clear moments are so short. There is much more darkness.
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A certain traveler who knew many continents was asked what he found most remarkable of all.
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Remember that the act of writing is a tiny part of a bigger something.
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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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Time takes life away and gives us memory, gold with flame, black with embers.
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