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Keep off your thoughts from things that are past and done; for thinking of the past wakes regret and pain.

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With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence: they must not — they cannot at will be excited, with an eye to the paltry compensations, or the more paltry commendations, of mankind.
Edgar Allan Poe

Arthur Waley

Arthur Waley

Born: August 19, 1889
Died: June 27, 1966 (aged 76)
Bio: Arthur David Waley was an English Orientalist and sinologist who achieved both popular and scholarly acclaim for his translations of Chinese and Japanese poetry.
Known for:
  1. Monkey (1942)
  2. Three ways of thought in ancient China (1939)
  3. The No Plays of Japan (1921)
  4. The Secret History of the Mongols
  5. More Translations from the Chinese (1919)

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