Echoes in a Hollow Space

Random quote of the day:
“When young, I did not know the taste of sorrow.
I went up the tower.
I went up the tower
to write a poem on pretended sorrow.

By now I’ve completely tasted sorrow, but already
I do not want to speak about it.
I do not want to speak about it,
I only say: what a beautiful, cold autumn.”
—Xin Qiji
(28 May 1140 – 3 Oct 1207)



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Random quote of the day:

“All your sorrows have been wasted on you if you have not yet learned how to be wretched.”

—Seneca, “Consolation to Helvia” (his mother), A. D. 41



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Random quote of the day:

“If the olive trees knew the hands that planted them, their oil would become tears.”

—Mahmoud Darwish

 

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Mirrored from Better Than Dead.

Random quote of the day:

“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could.”

—Louise Erdrich, The Painted Drum

 

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Mirrored from Better Than Dead.

Random quote of the day:

“Hope and imagination are the only consolations for the disappointments and sorrows of experience.”

—Italo Calvino, Six Memos for the Next Millennium

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Mirrored from Better Than Dead.

Random quote of the day:

“Hunger was more powerful than sorrow.”

—Dante Alighieri, The Inferno, Canto 33, Line 7
(tr. Victoria Kirkham)

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Mirrored from Better Than Dead.

Random quote of the day:

“Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside,
You must know sorrow as the other deepest thing.”

—Naomi Shahib Nye, “Kindness”

 

You can read the whole poem here.

 

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Random quote of the day:

 

“Joys impregnate. Sorrows bring forth.”

—William Blake, “Proverbs of Hell,” The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

 

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Mirrored from Better Than Dead.