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 ZAGAJEWSKITime takes life away and gives us memory, gold with flame, black with embers.
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And tracing the labyrinthine ways of your mind, the haphazard vagaries of your thoughts at ease,
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As if entrapped in a tropical heatwave, with dozens of whirlwinds swirling in one’s mind, one thinks of a way out, or a way in: out of the scorching bosom of a volcano, and in – into the centre of a raging hurricane.
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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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He replied: the ubiquity of sparrows.
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In summer the empire of insects spreads.
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Time takes life away and gives us memory, gold with flame, black with embers.
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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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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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Human life and objects and trees vibrate with mysterious meanings, which can be deciphered like cuneiform writing.
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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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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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A brilliant poet is at work here-a poet in the rugged landscape of conflict and pain.
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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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