Do Not Say We Have Nothing

Sometimes, I think, you can look at a person and know they are full of words. Maybe the words are withheld due to pain or privacy, or maybe subterfuge. Maybe there are knife-edged words waiting to draw blood.

Sometimes, I think, you can look at a person and know they are full of words.

People could walk away towards illusions, they might see something so entrancing they would neglect to turn around. I feared that, like my father, she would no longer remember the reasons for coming home.

In fact, the way to punish someone might be to remove them from their circle of family and friends, isolate them in a cold country, and shatter them with loneliness.

There are a thousand ways to live. Just how many do the two of us know?
–ZHANG WEI, The Ancient Ship

land
is made by better things than wealth.

When the mind is exalted,
the body is lightened
and feels as if it could float in the wind.
This city is famed as a centre of letters;
and all you writers coming here
prove that the name of a great

music is the great love of the People. If we sing a beautiful song, if we faithfully remember all the words, the People will never abandon us

no one could be sure that tomorrow or next year, anything would remain the same

it might be, was being renewed. Life was full of obstacles