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“No imaginary judgments of form, The clouds Butterfat”
― Book of Haikus
― Book of Haikus
“INFANT SORROW My mother groaned, my father wept: Into the dangerous world I leapt, Helpless, naked, piping loud, Like a fiend hid in a cloud. Struggling in my father's hands, Striving against my swaddling-bands, Bound and weary, I thought best To sulk upon my mother's breast.”
― Poems of William Blake
― Poems of William Blake
“And as for the human mind, I deny that it is the same in all men. I hold that there is every variety of natural capacity from the idiot to Newton and Shakespeare; the mass of mankind, midway between these extremes, being blockheads of different degrees; education leaving them pretty nearly as it found them, with this single difference, that it gives a fixed direction to their stupidity, a sort of incurable wry neck to the thing they call their understanding. ”
― The Collected Works of Thomas Love Peacock: PergamonMedia
― The Collected Works of Thomas Love Peacock: PergamonMedia
“(Precisely because of this power that hope has of making the suffering hold out, the Greeks regarded it as the evil of evils, as the most malign of evils; it remained behind at the source of all evil.) —”
― Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche
― Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche
“THE MOTHER SPARROW take ni iza / ume ni iza to ya / oya suzume Let’s be off to the bamboo, to the peach trees, says the mother sparrow. Issa was more than sympathetic. He felt an intimacy with the mother sparrow that relates to what John Keats must have felt when he wrote, “The setting sun will always set me to rights, and if a sparrow come before my window, I take part in its existence and peck about the gravel.”6 Issa and Keats lived in different times and in far distant cultures, yet unknowingly their relationship was mar velously close—as close as their relationship with the little birds was. LOOK”
― The River of Heaven: The Haiku of Basho, Buson, Issa, and Shiki
― The River of Heaven: The Haiku of Basho, Buson, Issa, and Shiki
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