
was my name.
Interview with Nick Harper in The Guardian (28 November 2003).
Source: Blood Promise
was my name.
Interview with Nick Harper in The Guardian (28 November 2003).
Source: The Agony and the Ecstasy
My English was really horrible, so the only words I had were, 'Not me!
Ibid.
“I beg you listen to this advice—
When you can get wine, be sure to drink it.”
Substance, Shadow, and Spirit, "Substance speaks to Shadow" (translation by A. Waley)
In A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems (1919), 'Poems By Tao Ch'ien', p. 106
Context: Heaven and Earth exist for ever:
Mountains and rivers never change.
But herbs and trees in perpetual rotation
Are renovated and withered by the dews and frosts:
And Man the wise, Man the divine—
Shall he alone escape this law?
Fortuitously appearing for a moment in the World
He suddenly departs, never to return.
How can he know that the friends he has left
Are missing him and thinking of him?
Only the things that he used remain;
They look upon them and their tears flow.
Me no magical arts can save,
Though you may hope for a wizard's aid.
I beg you listen to this advice—
When you can get wine, be sure to drink it.
Quoted in interview with Jack Fincher, "The University Has Become a Factory," Life magazine (1965-02-26).