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Elderly
“
Setting out alone in old age, emptiness
knowing itself here in such splendor,
I often hike up to where streams end,
gaze into a time newborn clouds rise.
If I meet some old-timer in these woods,
we laugh and talk, all return forgotten.
”
― The Selected Poems of Wang Wei
― The Selected Poems of Wang Wei
“
Words were few and failing between them as though the silence that sat with them had laid its old lips on theirs and sucked them dry of speech. For where could one begin? With the weather? But here there was no weather. These few sad rooms were the old man's world. His horizons were all walls.
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― Redwork
― Redwork
