"A falcon hovers at the edge of the sky.Two gulls drift slowly up the river.Vulnerable while they ride the wind,they coast and glide with ease.Dew is heavy on the grass below,the spider's web is ready.Heaven's ways include the human:among a thousand sorrows, I stand alone."

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Source : Du Fu, “I Stand Alone”

Du Fu

#Two Quotes #Rivers Quotes #Wind Quotes

“It has always seemed to me that Barack Obama has studied intensely and learned a great deal from Lincoln.”
“I had studied history at Brown and didn't feel like doing anything with it. What does one do with a history degree besides become a historian? And the professors in school, it seemed like they were just writing books for other professors to comment on, and vice versa - it was the most self-referential, boring world you could ever imagine.”

Source : Interview with Michel Auder, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 22, 2009.
“I decided years ago that if I'm going to keep teaching contemplation, then the last years of my life should be contemplative.”
“Sometimes it seems the only accomplishment my education ever bestowed on me was the ability to think in quotations.”

Source : A Summer Birdcage ch. 1 (1963)
“I don't trust words. I trust pictures.”
“I love the process of being taken from where I am to somewhere else.”

Source : Josephine Jacobsen (1997). “The instant of knowing: lectures, criticism, and occasional prose”, Univ of Michigan Pr
“Write the kind of story you would like to read. People will give you all sorts of advice about writing, but if you are not writing something you like, no one else will like it either.”
“And so he [the Jew] advances on his fatal road until another force comes forth to oppose him, and in a mighty struggle hurls the heaven-stormer back to Lucifer. Germany is today the next great war aim of Bolshevism. It requires all the force of a young missionary idea to raise our people up again, to free them from the snares of this international serpent...”

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