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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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.
ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI
A certain traveler who knew many continents was asked what he found most remarkable of all.
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But also read against yourselves, read for questioning and impotence, for despair and erudition…
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I drink from a small spring, / my thirst excedes the ocean.
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In summer the empire of insects spreads.
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Be sober, be intelligent, be educated, rely on the tangible reality as long as you can.
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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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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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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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Clear moments are so short. There is much more darkness.
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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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Remember that the act of writing is a tiny part of a bigger something.
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A little rain, a little blood. Black fingernails in August; and going berserk, going bananas.
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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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Gabriel Levin’s book is a journey through time and through entrenched animosities of the Middle East.
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