“We cannot escape anything by consenting tacitly to be defeated. Despair is an abyss without bottom. Do not think to close it by consenting to it and trying to forget you have consented.”
― Thoughts in Solitude
― Thoughts in Solitude
“In the Original Unity of the First Thing lies the Secondary Cause of All Things, with the Germ of their Inevitable Annihilation.”
― Eureka: A Prose Poem
― Eureka: A Prose Poem
“I hardly need to abstract things, for each object is unreal enough already, so unreal that I can only make it real by means of painting.”
― On My Painting
― On My Painting
“In this village is a house
a house without an owner
earth gives rise to grass
water appears as drops of dew
fire ignites a gang of thieves
wind whips up a black-cloud rain
search inside for the occupant
a pearl concealed in rags”
― The Collected Songs of Cold Mountain
a house without an owner
earth gives rise to grass
water appears as drops of dew
fire ignites a gang of thieves
wind whips up a black-cloud rain
search inside for the occupant
a pearl concealed in rags”
― The Collected Songs of Cold Mountain
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