Adam Zagajewski was a polish poet and novelist. In 2004 he was awarded the Neustadt International Prize for literature. He died this past March, leaving us a vast collection of his wise words.
Along with the rest of you on this planet, I've had to moderate the bad news I can handle on a given day. A while back, as I was thumbing through my New Yorker Magazine, I saw a poem by Adam Zagajewski. Both the poet and the magazine are noted for their heavy handed poems.
But this was totally different. I torn the page out and have read it multiple times. It holds a truth for all of us. This is the kind of place I need to go each and every day in order to stay sane and healthy.
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