184th Nadirism: It Could Be It could be a face Surely nothing more Than man and tear And sun on the face And the bit of dream And the...

178th Nadirism: I’m hanging onto the stony cliff of my words by my teeth, just so I won’t fall off. I’m hanging on by my teeth to those...

174th Nadirism: Born to a family of God-searchers, I began searching for a God as a child, and, in his place, I found...life! And it...

173rd Nadirism (From the Depths/mima’amakim) I threw away something or other With my own hands, these two. To this day I hear it falling,...

155th Nadirism: Like a loyal dog, my shtetl has followed me even here. Once again: Like my white dog, who is always smeared with dirt and...

161st Nadirism: Boyishness ripened in me, like an apple ready to fall from a tree near a fence--onto the open road, to be trampled by the...

154th Nadirism: Narayev!-- -- --* Gray dove of mine, who hangs in blue air, Your perfume will again blossom there in the space between my...

147th Nadirism: Art, sex, religion--the great three-in-one, the trinity, which pulls the thread of our life. Sexuality drags life by the...

143rd Nadirism: God can deny the world, but the world cannot deny the God which it created, and which it formed (be it as reward or as...

139th Nadirism: I wouldn’t want for my biographies to spend more time on my cravats and pipes than on...my mother’s silk tikhl...

136th Nadirism: If you don’t want to be criticized: think nothing, do nothing, and see nothing. Az du vilst men zol dikh nisht kritikirn,...

128th Nadirism: Sickly, weak and old ideas, leave my heart and let me be free. Like rescue ships in a storming harbor. So by dint of...

121st Nadirism: For some people (losers) having no time means they have no time to be happy. Others (winners) exploit their...

118th Nadirism: Slowly--like a child cutting into the honey cake their grandmother gave them for their birthday--so slowly did I cut into...

113th Nadirism: The wise drinker knows that thirst can be as blessed as the most blessed drink. Der kluger trinker veys, az der dorsht...

108th Nadirism: ...Even worse than the chauvinists are the shove-bshove-ists [relativists.]* ...erger fun di shovinistn enen di...

104th Nadirism: Should we live as God commanded, although we don’t know exactly what God commanded, or should we live according to our...

101st Nadirism: My father-in-law looks at me like at a clock without hands. He’s heard that I “work,” but as for what I do and for what...

98th Nadirism: I was on my vacash (vacation) and was sitting under an acash (acacia) when a man of my nash (nation) handed me a page from...

96th Nadirism: Cemetery...a field we sowed with unquiet souls where bright, silent stones arose. Besoylem...a feld vu me hot farzeyt...