Its been more than a year, so bumping this thread with some new lines and a poem.
Quote:
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“Being an irreligious puritan and a rational mystic, I think it's irresponsible to let a belief think for you or a chemical dream for you.”
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-Ursula K. Le Guin in the Afterward to
The Farthest Shore
Quote:
The Red Cockatoo
Sent as a present from Annam –
A red cockatoo,
Coloured like the peach-tree blossom,
Speaking with the speech of men.
And they did with it what is always done
To the learned and the eloquent:
They took a cage with stout bars
And shut it up inside.
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Po Chu-I (772 -846), Translated by Arthur Waley