Answering Venus Quotes

“No one has yet tested the pencil
To see how many words it can write”
― Xi Chuan, Notes on the Mosquito: Selected Poems

“Night is the sleep of seven wax moths
Dawn is the singing of five mermaids
Noon is the scratching of three field mice
Dusk is the shadow of a crow”
― Xi Chuan, Notes on the Mosquito: Selected Poems