“We for a certainty are not the first
Have sat in taverns while the tempest hurled
Their hopeful plans to emptiness, and cursed
Whatever brute and blackguard made the world.”
No. 9, st. 3.
Last Poems http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext05/8lspm10.txt (1922)
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“An horrid stillness first invades the ear,
And in that silence we the tempest fear.”
Astraea Redux (1660), line 7–8.
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 100.
“Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.”
“The fact that there is nothing but a spiritual world deprives us of hope and gives us certainty.”
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The Zürau Aphorisms (1917 - 1918)
“A world with no place for God is dark, empty without hope.”
"Filming the Age of Kingdom: The End Times and the Movies of The Church of Almighty God" https://bitterwinter.org/end-times-and-the-movies-of-cag/
Source: The Rubaiyat (1120)
"A Song at Weicheng" (送元二使安西), as translated by Witter Bynner in Three Hundred Poems of the Tang Dynasty
Variant translations:
Wei City morning rain dampens the light dust.
By this inn, green, newly green willows.
I urge you to drink another cup of wine;
West of Yang Pass, are no old friends.
Mike O'Connor, "Wei City Song" in Where the World Does Not Follow (2002), p. 119
No dust is raised on pathways wet with morning rain,
The willows by the tavern look so fresh and green.
I invite you to drink a cup of wine again:
West of the Southern Pass no more friends will be seen.
Xu Yuan-zhong, "A Farewell Song" in 150 Tang Poems (1984), p. 29
Light rain is on the light dust.
The willows of the inn-yard
Will be going greener and greener,
But you, Sir, had better take wine ere your departure,
For you will have no friends about you
When you come to the gates of Go.
Ezra Pound, epigraph to "Four Poems of Departure", in Cathay (1915), p. 28
"The Artist of the Beautiful" (1844)
