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“Real geniuses would like that what we think of ourselves is true.”
“There are countless circles of hell; believers never penetrate the ninth circle.”
“I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.”
“Cosmos is God, who whispered the syllable of life.”
“Life is only a flicker of melted ice.”
“Stars are only the rain of the Absolute.”
“God is a cloud from which rain fell.”
“Darkness does not age; nothing is always nothing.”
“In the essence of truth lies deceit.”
“Deceit dispels the boredom of the Absolute.”
“Absolute equals nothingness.”
“Absolute is a game with only one player where Absolute forgets itself so it would have a reason to fulfill the motion while returning.”
“Omnipotence and omniscience are the end of power and knowledge.”
“Everything and nothing are the same in the Absolute.”
“Procreation annihilates eternity.”
“Existence is the end of endless eternity without a beginning or an end.”
“Unborn eternity does not die; existence is dying and falls asleep in the eternity beyond existence.”
“Eternity is a glorious word, but eternity is ice.”
“Knighthood lies above eternity; it doesn’t live off fame, but rather deeds.”
“Our eternity is not real; it resembles us; it is our own invention; its scent is vanity.”
“When following God, Zero we never find.”
“Infinity is the end. End without infinity is but a new beginning.”
“The world is God’s salvation.”
“Sun is a hearthstone, a merry-go-round of extinguished hearthstones.”
“Universe is the Sun watching its own self.”
“The world is a fairy tale; we are its guardians.”
“Two forces create eternity – a fairy tale and a dream from the fairy tale.”
“God is busy and has no time for you.”
“Get close to grass and you’ll see a star.”
“Sunbathe from within.”
“Arrival in the world is really a departure and that, which we call departure, is only a return.”
“The same word we love and hate, leaves in different directions, taking different paths.”
“Through words to the meaning of thoughts with no words.”
“Different languages, the same thoughts; servant to thoughts and their masters.”
“How many unuttered words died in the heads of those for whom a word was too expensive.”
“Everybody talks, but there is no conversation.”
“We hear only our own voices, still echoes returning to our emptiness.”
“When the long bygone Lee Po wanted to say something, he could do it with only a few words.”
“We forget old stories, but those stories remain the same.”
“How alive is thought, invisible, yet without thought there is no sight.”
“The deeper thought is, the taller she becomes.”
“A smiling lie is a whirlwind, easy to enter, but hard to escape.”
“Truth is hard-hearted and unrelenting, too clear, precise; a lie is much more imaginative.”
“In the lie of truth lies the truth.”
“Teaching others, he corrected himself.”
“He did not waste time in a vain search for a place in history.”
“After Homer and Dante, is a whole century of creating worth one Shakespeare?”
“How does one say something new and not retell?”
“We built tall buildings, but we have not become any taller.”
“Either all lights are turned off or one inner light is missing.”
“He did not profess to anybody how to reach others without professing.”
“You not only are hunted by others, you unknowingly hunt yourself.”
“Do not look too far for you will see nothing.”
“Either you will be you or you will not be at all.”
“We need knew knights, but without swords.”
“Say No! Accept the burdens of revenge.”
“Wherever there is somebody else, a war is not far away.”
“Even if you are alone you wage war with yourself.”
“A breeze, a forgotten summer, a smile, all can fit into a storefront window.”
“Holy books are an insult to a God with good intentions.”
“Whatever others may say, they say it to deceive and comfort themselves, not help you.”
“His Highness was always confident in his statements, especially about what he viewed for the first time.”
“Now that we are all so smart, we don’t easily find resolutions.”
“He thought others were small; that was his greatness.”
“This dwarf still observes the world from his own self-imposed height.”
“If you could have walked on the planet before humans lived here, maybe the Ivory Coast would have seemed more beautiful than La Côte d'Azur.”
“We measure everything by ourselves with almost a necessary conceit.”
“There are no winners in real games.”
“The game itself is bigger than the winning.”
“Serious affairs and history are carefully laid snares for the uninformed.”
“Creators of history always play with our impotence and our ignorance.”
“You mark and celebrate errors, transforming failures into successes.”
“All those big words produce disgust today.”
“Statesmen are grocers, ambitious clowns.”
“For a game, you don’t need a teacher.”
“Faith is a question of eyesight; even the blind can see that.”
“The universe is God’s son.”
“Burning the witch Giordano Bruno is one more wound inflicted on Christ’s body.”
“Christ did not ask or want to be what he was not.”
“Strangers are endearing because you don’t know them yet.”
“Your head is a lit chamber.”
“The light teaches you to convert life into a festive promenade.”
“What we call life is only talk of nature.”
“Nothing is inanimate; what is the rest is our interpretation.”
“We like to admit to only that which already glows, although it is nobler to support brightness before it glows, not afterwards.”
“It is easy to see the glow but hard to recognize the awakening of silence.”
“Disease often comes with a smiling face.”
“Don’t pay attention to those who offer too much.”
“He confided his deepest secret to you; be always wary of his secret.”
“If what we think of ourselves were true, the planet would overflow with geniuses.”
“Is it possible to write a poem or are these words just screams of outlaws exiled to the desert?”
“It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.”
“You don’t know anything, but I know even less.”
“If you are good, they say you are weak.”
“They blossomed, they did not talk about blossoming.”
“They grew; they did not talk about growing.”
“Pose your questions to people and you will get countless useless answers.”
“From whichever side I start, I think I am in an old place where others have been before me.”
“For a moment at least, be a smile on someone else’s face.”
“Beyond all vanities, fights, and desires, omnipotent silence lies.”
“There are many secrets; don’t try to resolve them all.”
“If we were to understand how important it is to say something and say it well, maybe we wouldn’t write a single word, but that would be tragic.”
“Hope without love is hopeless.”
“Nobility is not only in forgiveness.”

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English
Pages
141

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Table of Contents

Inferno
SKY-MOTION
The Most Beautiful Poem
First Silence
Top and Bottom
Marked by Infinity
Windmill
Holy Fire
Vortex
Cosmos
Cosmos Flower
Are You or Are You Not?
GOD AND CIRCLES
The Day of the Universe
Sky and Circle
The Truth of the Circle
God and a Circle
SKYWALKING
Rain of the Absolute
A Cloud
Cloud II
Light and Night
A Deceit
The Young Old Being
Eternity and Existence
Eternity and Eternity
Zero
Speed
Infinity and End
FORGOTTEN PLACE
Hearthstone
A Fairy Tale and the End
A Paradox
God’s Apprentice
Beguilement
Solid Ground
God Is Busy
Star in the Grass
His Letter
Forgotten Place
Fire
Reprise
A STONE AND A WORD
Where Does a Song End?
A Word
A First Word
A Stone and a Word
Combining Words
Hidden Words
Unuttered Words
Stories
Word Hypnosis
Just a Few Words
The Same Story
Thought
A Lie
Truth and Lie
Socrates
Tiredness
New Word
WHAT AFTER
Dumbness
Or
A Tame Sound
Here and There
Nothing
A Lantern
This and Like That
What Afterwards
The Knight
Knights
A GAME
No!
War
Things
Cheat
Circus
His Highness
The Dwarf
Virus of the Soul
Merit and Failure
Lengthening the Day
Game I
Game II
Game III
Reflection of an Upset Person
IS IT POSSIBLE TO WRITE A POEM
Does God Exist?
Insult I
God’s Son
Christ
Head
Life
A Flash of Silence
Benefactors
Is It Possible to write a Poem
Break
HOPELESSNESS
Paralysis
Face to Face
If
There and Here
Absurd
Insult II
Hoax
A Thought about Ourselves
A Question for the Sun
Séance
The Old Bench
Garden
SOUND OF THE SILENCE
Whisper Your Secret to Me
Somebody Always Waits
Simplicity
Empathy
The Way, the Road
Hell and Paradise
Flavor of the Field
Cure
A Light Beam
The Day
BEETHOVEN AND DEATH
Exits
Secret
Secret and the Truth
Treasury of the Source
Beethoven and Death
Same Sight
Maybe or Perhaps
About the Author

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