Ping Fu Quotes

#1. When in doubt, err on the side of generosity.

Ping Fu

#2. To break the pentameter, that was the first heave

Ezra Pound

#3. I haven't had a single moment of terror since they told me [I was dying]. My only regret is to die four pages too soon. If I can finish, then I'm quite happy to go.

Dennis Potter

#4. Our choice, always, is to love and understand.

Ping Fu

#5. To me, a recently read novel was like a miniature planet: only a few hours earlier I had been breathing its air and living contentedly among its people - and now I was expected to pronounce a judgement about its worth?

Julie Schumacher

#6. Better a dish of husks to the accompaniment of a muted lute than to be satiated with stewed shark's fin and rich spiced wine of which the cost is frequently mentioned by the provider.

Ernest Bramah

#7. We love and understand talent; we wish it be within us. The truly gifted, those exceptional few, must wait for the world to catch up.

John Donne

#8. Nothing is the destiny of everyone, it is our commonness made dumb.

Mark Strand

#9. Like a singing river
You break out to flow freely
I am the mountain behind
Happily I watch you
Memory of us
Full and sweet

Anchee Min

#10. I believe that behind every closed door there is an open space.

Ping Fu

#11. Your ability to survive depends on your attitude

Ping Fu