"The paired butterflies are already yellow with August Over the grass in the West garden; They hurt me. I grow older."

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Source : Ezra Pound, Bai Li (1917). “Lustra of Ezra Pound, with Earlier Poems”

Li Bai

#Hurt Quotes #Butterfly Quotes #Garden Quotes

“Our precious heritage of natural and unspoiled beauty and unpolluted streams, once exhausted and destroyed, can never be replaced.”
“Government support is not only investing in upstream areas like basic research, but also in downstream areas like applied research and early-stage financing for the companies themselves. This means there are great risks.”
“Heroes come and go, but legends are forever.”
“Who understands much forgives much. To understand everything makes us very forgiving ...”
“If you can create community in a classroom the kids will not drop out”
“The sick in soul insist that it is humanity that is sick, and they are the surgeons to operate on it. They want to turn the world into a sickroom. And once they get humanity strapped to the operating table, they operate on it with an ax.”
“So my antagonist said, "Is it impossible that there are flying saucers? Can you prove that it's impossible?" "No", I said, "I can't prove it's impossible. It's just very unlikely". At that he said, "You are very unscientific. If you can't prove it impossible then how can you say that it's unlikely?" But that is the way that is scientific. It is scientific only to say what is more likely and what less likely, and not to be proving all the time the possible and impossible.”
“And I'm the first one to tell people to break the rules. But you can only break the rules once you know what the rules are. The other thing is, fashion is the last design discipline to actually have academic texts and historical analysis.”

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