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“A poet, he argued, is different from somebody who simply writes poetry. A poet is loyal to his own experience and does not write about things outside his own understanding, whereas somebody who writes poetry simply puts together sentences, whose words he arranges in separate lines. Without fresh colors, without luster, without images, he asked, where is a poem’s artistic life?” (1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows Quotes)
Ai Weiwei
1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows
“The revolution needed to have enemies. Without them, people would feel a deep unease.”
Ai Weiwei
1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows
“Tolerating the distortion of history is the first step toward tolerating humiliation in real life.”
Ai Weiwei
1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows
“You who are living, live the best life you can/ Don’t count on the earth to preserve memory”
Ai Weiwei
1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows
