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The Internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around it.
What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.
In poetic thought, the role of the subconscious is played by euphony.
O who is more to blame: He who sins for pay - Or he who pays for sin?
How we lie to ourselves when we've fallen in love with the wrong man.
Conscience: that quiet voice which whispers that someone is watching.
What tyranny could exceed a tyranny that dictates to the human heart?
All the classical genres are now ridiculous in their rigorous purity.
Vague and nebulous is the beginning of all things, but not their end.
All things in this vast universe exist in you, with you, and for you.
Love has the power that dispels death; charm that conquers the enemy.
Like the seeds dreaming beneath the snow your heart dreams of spring.
The biggest thing in today's sorrow is the memory of yesterday's joy.
The mute grain turns to love songs when swallowed by the nightingale.
As the strings of a lute are apart though they quiver the same music.
I wanted to communicate what I had seen, so that others could see it.
Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant.
I entrench myself in my books equally against sorrow and the weather.
The loveliest hair is nothing, if the wearer is incapable of a grace.
My tears are buried in my heart, like cave-locked fountains sleeping.
Surprises are like misfortunes or herrings - they rarely come single.
Alas! the praise given to the ear Ne'er was nor ne'er can be sincere.
... true love is like religion, it hath its silence and its sanctity.
Good taste is his religion, his morality, his standard, and his test.
Your work is carved out of agony as a statue is carved out of marble.
Make us enemies of every people on earth, but save us from civil war.
Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.
The metaphor for Palestine is stronger than the Palestine of reality.
For a time they confronted each other like two mute unspeaking forts.
Which of us can resist the temptation of being thought indispensable?
The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose.
Even an obvious fabrication is some comfort when you have few others.
It's evening, one of those gray water-color washes, like liquid dust.
On this twelfth day of my diet I would rather die satiated than slim.
he who gives quickly gives twice / in nothing so much as in a letter.
Even when clouds grow thick, the sun still pours its light earthward.
Once you start describing nothingness, you end up with somethingness.
All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life.
Bear ye one another's burdens, the Lord said, and he was talking law.
A dysfunctional family is any family with more than one person in it.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.
I grew up in a sad, depressed place. I got out. Poetry saved my life.
A pear tree is blooming, by a collapsed house, on an old battlefield.
Summer grasses — all that remains of great soldiers' imperial dreams.
Mountain-rose petals Falling, falling, falling now... Waterfall music
Poverty's child - he starts to grind the rice, and gazes at the moon.
Old dark sleepy pool... Quick unexpected frog Goes plop! Watersplash!
They never taste who always drink: They always talk, who never think.
Poetry makes nothing happen. It survives in the valley of its saying.
in the very long run any success devours - and perhaps also corrupts.