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Basho

“Go to the pine if you want to learn about the pine, or to the bamboo if you want to learn about the bamboo.

And in doing so, you must let go of your subjective preoccupation with yourself.

Otherwise you impose yourself on the object and don’t learn.

Your poetry arises by itself when you and the object have become one, when you have plunged deep enough into the object to see something like a hidden light glimmering there.

However well phrased your poetry may be, if your feeling isn’t natural — if you and the object are separate — then your poetry isn’t true poetry but merely your subjective counterfeit.”

~Basho

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Says it all

However well phrased your poetry may be, if your feeling isn’t natural — if you and the object are separate — then your poetry isn’t true poetry but merely your subjective counterfeit.

Amen to this sister.

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