Sunday, June 25, 2017

Thought for the Day


If something is to be destroyed
please don't leave traces behind.
~ Liu Xia
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Quoted from "Chaos" in Liu Xia's Empty Chairs: Selected Poems (Graywolf Press, 2015), Bilingual Edition, Trans.: Ming Di and Jennifer Stern; page 53

Liu Xia, Chinese Poet and Artist; Wife of Poet, Activist, and 2010 Nobel Peace Prize Winner Liu Xiaobo 

Read "Twilight" from Empty Chairs.

Note: Liu Xiaobo was released from prison on June 26, 2017. Read "Chinese Nobel Peace Laureate Liu Xiaobo Released from Prison, Suffering from Liver Cancer", The Washington Post, June 26, 2017.

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