Adam Zagajewski

Clear moments are so short. There is much more darkness. More ocean than terra firma. More shadow than form.

— Adam Zagajewski

“But where do we find what's lasting? Where do the deathless things hide?”

— Adam Zagajewski

Once in a while it vanishes - in the sense that I become deaf to beauty for a week or two or…

— Adam Zagajewski

“Epithalamium Without silence there would be no music. Life paired is doubtless more difficult than solitary existence - just as a boat…

— Adam Zagajewski

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

— Adam Zagajewski

“- Everything's finished. Riders gallop black horses, a tyrant composes a sentence of death with grammatical errors. Youth dissolves in a day;…

— Adam Zagajewski

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

— Adam Zagajewski

Read for yourselves, read for the sake of your inspiration, for the sweet turmoil in your lovely head. But also read against…

— Adam Zagajewski

Cities at daybreak are no one's, and have no names. And I, too, have no name, dawn, the stars growing pale, the…

— Adam Zagajewski

“Read for yourselves, read for the sake of your inspiration, for the sweet turmoil in your lovely head. But also read against…

— Adam Zagajewski

“I drink from a small spring, my thirst exceeds the ocean.”

— Adam Zagajewski

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

— Adam Zagajewski

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

— Adam Zagajewski

“Try to praise the mutilated world. Remember June’s long days, and wild strawberries, drops of wine, the dew. The nettles that methodically…

— Adam Zagajewski

Human life and objects and trees vibrate with mysterious meanings, which can be deciphered like cuneiform writing. There exists a meaning, hidden…

— Adam Zagajewski

In summer the empire of insects spreads.

— Adam Zagajewski

“ZVONA Sklonićemo se u zvona, u raznjihana zvona, u huku, u vazduh, u srce zvonjave. Sklonićemo se u zvona i zaploviti iznad…

— Adam Zagajewski

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

— Adam Zagajewski

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

— Adam Zagajewski

“POSMATRAM FOTOGRAFIJU Posmatram fotografiju grada u kome sam se rodio, njegove bujne bašte i krivudave ulice, brda, katoličke krovove i kupole pravoslavnih…

— Adam Zagajewski

But I was only a chaotic walker, nobody could stop me; even a totalitarian state was not able to control my daydreams,…

— Adam Zagajewski

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

— Adam Zagajewski