Wednesday, February 25, 2009

February 25, 2009























Without undergoing a winter 
that bites into your bones
How can the plum blossoms regale you
with their piercing fragrance?
                                            
                                     - Huang Po

Sunday, February 8, 2009

February 8, 2009








Our revels now are ended. These our actors

(As I foretold you) were all spirits, and

Are melted into air, into thin air,

And like the baseless fabric of this vision,

The cloud-capp'd tow’rs, the gorgeous palaces,

The solemn temples, the great globe itself,

Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve

And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,

Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff

As dreams are made on; and our little life

Is rounded with a sleep….

 

The Tempest. The Riverside Shakespeare. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1974.  p.1630