Famous quotes containing the words hla stavhana and/or stavhana:
“Friend,
don’t cry
with the moon of your face
turned away.
Love’s ways are like this:
as curled as the tendrils
of new cucumber.”
—Hla Stavhana (c. 50 A.D.)
“The beggar gazes at her round navel
and she at the moon, his face,
while crows are pecking
at her ladle
and his begging-bowl.”
—Hla Stavhana (c. 50 A.D.)