“Or maybe it's just that beautiful things are so easily broken by the world.”
Source: City of Fallen Angels
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“it is a serious thing // just to be alive / on this fresh morning / in this broken world.”
Source: Red Bird

quote, c. 1930; cited by Christina Lodder https://utopiadystopiawwi.wordpress.com/constructivism/vladimir-tatlin/letalin/, in Russian Constructivism; Yale University Press, Connecticut, 1983, p. 214
The 'Letatlin' Tatlin constructed in organic round and oval forms
Quotes, 1926 - 1954

“This world is full of broken things: broken hearts, broken promises, broken people”
Source: The Unquiet

“Dirty, stained, withered, broken things seem beautiful to me.”
Kiyokazu Washida. The Past, the Feminine, the Vain in Talking to Myself (2002), Ch. 3: Feedom or the Vain.

“Easily moved by beauty—such is my nature.
I take a few phrases
and they just turn into poems”
As translated in Great Fool: Zen Master Ryōkan; Poems, Letters, and Other Writings (1996) by Ryūichi Abé and Peter Haskel, p. 117