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Clear moments are so short. There is much more darkness.

Adam Zagajewski

I drink from a small spring, / my thirst excedes the ocean.
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Drink Ocean Small Spring
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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Anand Thakur
Read for yourselves, read for the sake of your inspiration, for the sweet turmoil in your lovely head.
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Greatness Head Inspiration Lovely Sake Sweet Turmoil Yourselves
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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Anand Thakur
This coming and going of the inner life – because this is what it is – is a curse and a blessing.
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Anand Thakur
Clear moments are so short. There is much more darkness.
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Anand Thakur
Human life and objects and trees vibrate with mysterious meanings, which can be deciphered like cuneiform writing.
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Anand Thakur
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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Blessing Create Energy Happiness Moment Movement Peak
This day’s nothingness as if from spite became a flame and scorched the lips of children and poets.
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Children Day Flame Lip Nothingness Poet Scorched Spite
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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Amazingly Carelessly End Loss Mental Odd Surplus Unabashed
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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Darkness Greatness Life Madness Malice Outline Understand
More ocean than terra firma. More shadow than form.
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Firma Form More Ocean Terra
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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Anand Thakur
I don’t need to explain why it’s a curse.
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Curse Explain Need
He replied: the ubiquity of sparrows.
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Reply Sparrow Ubiquity
Time takes life away and gives us memory, gold with flame, black with embers.
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Away Black Ember Flame Giving Gold Memories Memory Take

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