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 ZAGAJEWSKII don’t need to explain why it’s a curse.
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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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I drink from a small spring, / my thirst excedes the ocean.
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I don’t need to explain why it’s a curse.
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He replied: the ubiquity of sparrows.
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Clear moments are so short. There is much more darkness.
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But also read against yourselves, read for questioning and impotence, for despair and erudition…
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Be sober, be intelligent, be educated, rely on the tangible reality as long as you can.
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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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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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In summer the empire of insects spreads.
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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.
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A certain traveler who knew many continents was asked what he found most remarkable of all.
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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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