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Kathy Yang
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“Isn’t it time that, loving, we freed ourselves
from the beloved, and, trembling, endured:
as the arrow endures the bow, so as to be,
in its flight, something more than itself?”
― Duino Elegies
from the beloved, and, trembling, endured:
as the arrow endures the bow, so as to be,
in its flight, something more than itself?”
― Duino Elegies
“The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness. Although the two are identical twins, man, as a rule, views the prenatal abyss with more calm than the one he is heading for (at some forty-five hundred heartbeats an hour).”
― Speak, Memory
― Speak, Memory
“The wreckage of stars - I built a world from this wreckage.”
― Dithyrambs of Dionysus
― Dithyrambs of Dionysus
“How we squander our sorrows, gazing beyond them
into the sad wastes of duration,
to see if maybe they have a limit.”
― Duino Elegies
into the sad wastes of duration,
to see if maybe they have a limit.”
― Duino Elegies
“The kind of poem I produced in those days was hardly anything more than a sign I made of being alive, of passing or having passed, or hoping to pass, through certain intense human emotions. It was a phenomenon of orientation rather than of art, thus comparable to stripes of paint on a roadside rock or to a pillared heap of stones marking a mountain trail.”
― Speak, Memory
― Speak, Memory
Kathy’s 2025 Year in Books
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39 friends
412 books
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473 books
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1,458 books
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431 books
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384 books
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266 books
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