. . . it is how a person goes about quenching his desires or living with them unrequited that the readers get a glimpse of his true character.
Do not resemble me-Never be like a musk melon Cut in two identical halves.
Seek not the paths of the ancients; Seek that which the ancients sought.
The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
How I long to see among dawn flowers, the face of God.
A weathered skeleton in windy fields of memory, piercing like a knife.
Every moment of life is the last, every poem is a death poem.
Any good director creates a playground. That's what they do. They hire the right actor, open the door and let them play because stuff will happen, right then and there. The audience wants to believe that what's going on is happening for the first time, ever. That's what acting is. That's what good scene writing is.
The public doesn't want new music; the main thing it demands of a composer is that he be dead.
I have never felt bereft of anything.
Heaven knows, it's not the way it could be.