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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.

Adam Zagajewski

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I don’t need to explain why it’s a curse.
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Curse Explain Need
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
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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Be sober, be intelligent, be educated, rely on the tangible reality as long as you can.
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A certain traveler who knew many continents was asked what he found most remarkable of all.
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All Asked Certain Continent Found Many Remarkable Sparrow Traveler Ubiquity
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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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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Defend Experience Fashioned Loudly Notion Old Serenely Somebody Spiritual Value
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
He replied: the ubiquity of sparrows.
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Reply Sparrow Ubiquity
In summer the empire of insects spreads.
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Empire Insect Spread Summer
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
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
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
Remember that the act of writing is a tiny part of a bigger something.
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Act Bigger Remember Something Tiny Writing
And tracing the labyrinthine ways of your mind, the haphazard vagaries of your thoughts at ease,
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Ease Hahazard Labyrinthine Mind Tracing Varies Way
But also read against yourselves, read for questioning and impotence, for despair and erudition…
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Against Also Despair Erudition Impotence Questioning Read Yourselves

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