Read for yourselves, read for the sake of your inspiration, for the sweet turmoil in your lovely head.
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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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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A brilliant poet is at work here-a poet in the rugged landscape of conflict and pain.
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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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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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But also read against yourselves, read for questioning and impotence, for despair and erudition…
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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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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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Time takes life away and gives us memory, gold with flame, black with embers.
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A certain traveler who knew many continents was asked what he found most remarkable of all.
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And now, advice for beginning mystics.
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I don’t need to explain why it’s a curse.
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In summer the empire of insects spreads.
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This day’s nothingness as if from spite became a flame and scorched the lips of children and poets.
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Remember that the act of writing is a tiny part of a bigger something.
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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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