
Source: Blackbird Singing: Poems and Lyrics, 1965-1999
Source: Drenai series, The King Beyond the Gate, Ch. 22
Source: Blackbird Singing: Poems and Lyrics, 1965-1999
“Life was treasure. The only treasure.”
Source: Imago (1989), Chapter I, “Metamorphosis” section 6 (p. 564)
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Variant translation:
It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well, nor the judgment to hold their tongues.
As quoted in A Dictionary of Thoughts: being A Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors of the World, both Ancient and Modern (1908) edited by Tryon Edwards, p. 560
Les Caractères (1688), De la société et de la conversation
Source: Mara, Daughter of the Nile
From an article in Sovetskoye Iskusstvo, November 5, 1934; translation from Laurel Fay Shostakovich: A Life (2000) p. 77.