Adam Zagajewski





Adam Zagajewski

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born
in Lviv , Ukraine
June 21, 1945

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Average rating: 4.21 · 769 ratings · 95 reviews · 42 distinct works · Similar authors
Without End: New and Select...
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4.29 of 5 stars 4.29 avg rating — 208 ratings — published 2002 — 3 editions
Mysticism for Beginners
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4.23 of 5 stars 4.23 avg rating — 91 ratings — published 1997 — 3 editions
Eternal Enemies: Poems
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4.01 of 5 stars 4.01 avg rating — 91 ratings — published 2008 — 2 editions
A Defense of Ardor: Essays
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4.18 of 5 stars 4.18 avg rating — 51 ratings4 editions
Unseen Hand: Poems
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4.11 of 5 stars 4.11 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 2009 — 4 editions
Another Beauty
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4.09 of 5 stars 4.09 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 1998 — 3 editions
Canvas: Poems
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4.42 of 5 stars 4.42 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 1991 — 3 editions
Tremor: Selected Poems
4.54 of 5 stars 4.54 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1985 — 3 editions
Two Cities: On Exile, Histo...
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3.69 of 5 stars 3.69 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1995 — 3 editions
Polish Writers on Writing
4.12 of 5 stars 4.12 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2007 — 2 editions
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“I drink from a small spring, / my thirst excedes the ocean.”
Adam Zagajewski

“In summer the empire of insects spreads.”
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, read the dry sardonic remarks of cynical philosophers like Cioran or even Carl Schmitt, read newspapers, read those who despise, dismiss or simply ignore poetry and try to understand why they do it. Read your enemies, read those who reinforce your sense of what's evolving in poetry, 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.”
Adam Zagajewski, A Defense of Ardor: Essays



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