A certain traveler who knew many continents was asked what he found most remarkable of all.
ADAM ZAGAJEWSKICities 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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And now, advice for beginning mystics.
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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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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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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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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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More ocean than terra firma. More shadow than form.
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Clear moments are so short. There is much more darkness.
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Be sober, be intelligent, be educated, rely on the tangible reality as long as you can.
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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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Human life and objects and trees vibrate with mysterious meanings, which can be deciphered like cuneiform writing.
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I drink from a small spring, / my thirst excedes the ocean.
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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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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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A brilliant poet is at work here-a poet in the rugged landscape of conflict and pain.
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