There is no original truth, only original error.

I don't read poetry for pleasure. I read to be terrified in a way. And people who terrify me from their size and the grandeur of their imagination now are people like Pasternak and Neruda, a lot of Latin-American poets, Lowell - very few English poets - Ted Hughes a little...very few English poets now in fact (1968)

Deny them this participation of freedom, and you break that sole bond, which originally made, and must still preserve the unity of the empire.

Every Afghan story is marked by death and loss and unimaginable grief. And yet, she sees, people find a way to survive, to go on.

Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.

Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds.

Tomorrow, our nation will sit on the throne of the world. This is not a figment of the imagination, but a fact. Tomorrow we will lead the world, Allah willing. Apologize today, before remorse will do you no good. Our nation is moving forwards, and it is in your interest to respect a victorious nation.

[https://www.aozora.gr.jp/cards/000196/files/975_15935.html Japanese original text] of Hōjōki on Aozora Bunko

My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it.

I hadn't originally intended to do any reading, what if I did read one book more or one book less, whether I read or not wouldn't make a difference, I would still be waiting to get cremated.

The thieves may be able to follow the design plans and produce a loom. But we are modifying and improving our looms every day. They do not have the expertise gained from the failures it took to produce the original. We need not be concerned. We need only continue as always, making our improvements.

[http://www.chinesetolearn.com/lu-xuns-life-literary-work-and-quotes/ Lu Xun's quotes in Chinese original, pinyin, and English translation] at chinesetolearn.com

In the locus of emptiness, beyond the human standpoint, a world of "dependent origination" is opened up in which everything is related to everything else. Seen in this light, there is nothing in the world that arises from "self-power" and yet all "self-powered" workings arise from the world.

[http://www.poesia-inter.net/indexpn.htm Original poems] - It includes some translations and audio files. All poems are sourced

Real things in the darkness seem no realer than dreams.

Childhood lasts all through life. It returns to animate broad sections of adult life.... Poets will help us to find this living childhood within us, this permanent, durable immobile world.