Quotes about vulgar, page 11
Golden Bells
When I was almost forty
I had a daughter whose name was Golden Bells.
Now it is just a year since she was born;
She is learning to sit and cannot yet talk.
Ashamed—to find that I have not a sage’s heart:
I cannot resist vulgar thoughts and feelings.
Henceforward I am tied to things outside myself:
My only reward—the pleasure I am getting now.
If I am spared the grief of her dying young,
Then I shall have the trouble of getting her married.
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poem by Bai Juyi, translated by Arthur Waley
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Romantics consider common sense vulgar.
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Fact is based upon vulgar matter.
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I don't do any vulgar movements.
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