Notes from the Edge Conference.
"At Pearl Lodge blazing fragrance lingers.
After combing, brushing, jade rooms.
A burning orchid serves as a candle.
Gathered brocade never becoming text.
What by nature is gracefully remote,
transforms to bitterness with distant gazing.
I turn my head. I ask the winnowing gleam.
The winnowing gleam grows hollow."
—Li Shangyin tr Chloe Garcia Roberts via (More.)
"He taught the Law of Gravity, furnished proof after proof, but people turned deaf ears. Then he took off into the air and, floating there, repeated the lesson. Now people believed. But nobody was surprised when he did not come down again." —Paul Celan via via aldaily
"...Alexander Ross over..." (Which can be examined here.)
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