Cutting Together a History: On Dong Li’s “The Orange Tree”

"I have nothing to say, and I am saying it, and that is poetry." — John Cage

Poetry

"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them." — Federico García Lorca

"I see great things in baseball." — Walt Whitman

"The older one grows, the more one likes indecency." — Virginia Woolf

"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it." — Frank Zappa

"Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history." — George Bernard Shaw

<p>"I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead." — Samuel Goldwyn</p>

"You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to." — Molly Ivins

"As far as I'm concerned, being any gender is a drag." — Patti Smith

"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein

"Never be afraid to sit awhile and think." — Lorraine Hansberry

"There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education." — Will Rogers

"The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it." — Frank Herbert