Ts'ai Lun Quotes & Sayings

To a Poet"

Let verse of yours be flexible, but strong,
Strong as a poplar under valley's cover,
Strong as the earth under a plough, long,
Strong as a girl, who never knew a lover.

Reliably preserve severity at length,
Your verse need not be fluttering or booming,
Although the Muse has very easy steps,
She's not a dancer, but a goddess, ruling.

Frolicsome din of interrupted rhymes --
Temptation for decline, so free and so easy --
Just leave for use by jokers in a dance
On city streets for people who aren't busy.

And going out on the sacred paths,
Bring to melodiousness your chosen damnation.
You know, she's a mistress of the mass,
She craves embraces, as a dearth -- donations. — Nikolay Gumilev

Christians must understand most emphatically that the world around us is in conflict with the Word within us. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

Women try to be the best everywhere, and it's impossible. I want my clothes to give women the freedom to just be - I want them to put on my dresses and shine. — Alber Elbaz

this book puts the FUN in Disfunctional — Wataru Yoshizumi

People value that part of knowledge which is known. They do not know how to avail themselves of the Unknown in order to reach knowledge. Is this not misguided? — Zhuangzi

Everyone asks me if I'm the princess or if my brothers beat me up. The younger ones I can deck pretty easily. With the older ones, it's harder. — Odeya Rush

Your positive thinker may do well in suburbia but I'd rather be with a lucid depressive in the Arctic, where survival depends on precision and not fooling yourself about your chances on the ice. — Gwyneth Lewis

All I plead with you is this: make love of your self perfect — Nisargadatta Maharaj

...it would be a lie to describe the experience as anything less than exhilarating, the repulsive going hand in hand with the wondrous. — Caitlin Doughty

The human race has a yearning to explore. That's part of our biological and psychological makeup. — Kip Thorne

So you've just slept with him, given him your virginity, a man who doesn't love you. In fact, he has odd ideas about you, wants to make you some sort of kinky sex slave. — E.L. James