Read for yourselves, read for the sake of your inspiration, for the sweet turmoil in your lovely head. … - Adam Zagajewski

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I do believe that enduring geological features are important, though I don't think I can be clear about exactly why.

Adam Zagajewski

Read for yourselves, read for the sake of your inspiration, for the sweet turmoil in your lovely head. But also read against yourselves, read for questioning and impotence, for despair and erudition. . . 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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Time takes life away and gives us memory, gold with flame, black with embers.

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In summer the empire of insects spreads.

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A certain traveler who knew many continents was asked what he found most remarkable of all. He replied: the ubiquity of sparrows.

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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. This coming and going of the inner life - because this is what it is - is a curse and a blessing. I don't need to explain why it's a curse. 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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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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