Adam Zagajewski

Quotes

• “You’ve seen the refugees heading nowhere,you’ve heard the executioners sing joyfully.You should praise the mutilated world.Remember the moments when we were togetherin a white room and the curtain fluttered.Return in thought to the concert where music flared.You gathered acorns in the park in autumnand leaves eddied over the earth’s scars.Praise the mutilated worldand the gray feather a thrush lost,and the gentle light that strays and vanishesand returns.”
• “Our life is ordinary,I read in a crumpled paperabandoned on a bench.Our life is ordinary,the philosophers told me.”
• “December, herald of destruction,takes you on a long strollthrough the black torsos of treesand leaves scorched in autumn’s fire,as if to say: so much then foryour secrets and your treasures,the fervent trill of small birds,the promises of summer months.”
• “Don't allow the lucid moment to dissolveLet the radiant thought last in stillnessthough the page is almost filled and the flame flickersWe haven't risen yet to the level of ourselves.”
• “Probably I am an ordinary middle-classbeliever in individual rights, the word"freedom" is simple to me, it doesn't meanthe freedom of any class in particular.”

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Key facts

Born

( 1945-06-21 ) 21 June 1945, Lwów , Poland

Died

21 March 2021 (2021-03-21) (aged 75), Kraków , Poland

Occupation

Poet essayist translator

Nationality

Polish

Alma mater

Jagiellonian University

Notable works

Unseen Hand Another Beauty Słuch absolutny Asymetria

Notable awards

Struga Poetry Evenings Golden Wreath (2018) Princess of Asturias Award (2017) Griffin Lifetime Recognition Award (2016) Heinrich Mann Prize (2015) Neustadt International Prize for Literature (2004) Vilenica Prize (1996) Kościelski Award (1975)

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Image

Adam Zagajewski 2014 in Stockholm.jpg

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