Gabriel Levin's book is a journey through time and through entrenched animosities of the Middle East. What's astonishing and refreshing is his abilit…

- Adam Zagajewski

This day's nothingness as if from spite became a flame and scorched the lips of children and poets.

- Adam Zagajewski

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…

- 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 que…

- Adam Zagajewski

And now, advice for beginning mystics. Be sober, be intelligent, be educated, rely on the tangible reality as long as you can. Remember that the act …

- Adam Zagajewski

Time takes life away and gives us memory, gold with flame, black with embers.

- Adam Zagajewski

I drink from a small spring, / my thirst excedes the ocean.

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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 pa…

- Adam Zagajewski

A little rain, a little blood. Black fingernails in August; and going berserk, going bananas. As if entrapped in a tropical heatwave, with dozens of …

- Adam Zagajewski