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Notes on the Mosquito: Selected Poems QUOTES

Notes on the Mosquito: Selected Poems QUOTES

1 " If I breathe, what will my heart think?
If I vomit, what will my soul think? "

― Xi Chuan , Notes on the Mosquito: Selected Poems

2 " No one has yet tested the pencil
To see how many words it can write "

― Xi Chuan , Notes on the Mosquito: Selected Poems

3 " Many people pretend to be in thought, proving thought to be a beautiful thing.
But the bald man doesn’t need a comb, the tiger doesn’t need weapons, the fool doesn’t need thought. The person with no needs is practically a sage, but the sage also needs to count the rivers across the iron bridge to pass the time. This is the difference between the sage and the fool. "

― Xi Chuan , Notes on the Mosquito: Selected Poems

4 " Night is the sleep of seven wax moths
Dawn is the singing of five mermaids
Noon is the scratching of three field mice
Dusk is the shadow of a crow "

― Xi Chuan , Notes on the Mosquito: Selected Poems