Adam Zagajewski Quotes

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

In summer the empire of insects spreads.

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

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.

Cities 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.

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

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

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

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