Sublime
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En un siècle, le Japon a produit cinq grands poètes : Basho (1644-1694), Issa (1763-1828), Buson (1716-1783), Shiki (1867-1902), si l’on compte Taïgi (1709-1771) qui me laisse un peu froid. Sauf son poème sur l’été. « Averse d’été Un son brusque et fort Au-dessus de la forêt.
Dany Laferrière de l'Académie française • L'art presque perdu de ne rien faire: Collection bleue (essai français) (French Edition)
One by Mary Oliver The mosquito is so small it takes almost nothing to ruin it. Each leaf, the same. And the black ant, hurrying. So many lives, so many fortunes! Every morning, I walk softly and with forward glances down to the ponds and through the pinewoods. Mushrooms, even, have but a brief hour before the slug creeps to the feast, before the p
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What’s gone is already gone and what hasn’t come needs no thought right now I’m writing a right-now line plums are ripe and gardenias in bloom
Stonehouse Red Pine • The Mountain Poems of Stonehouse
William Stafford’s poem “The Way It Is,” which I share here: There’s a thread you follow. It goes among things that change. But it doesn’t change.
Mark Nepo • Drinking from the River of Light: The Life of Expression
WANG P’ANG says, “Everything changes into its opposite. Beginning follows end without cease. But people think everything is either beautiful or ugly. How absurd! Only the sage knows that the ten thousand ages are the same, that nothing is gained or lost.
Red Pine • Lao-tzu's Taoteching
Moi ? J'existe. C'est déjà une occupation de chaque instant. – Veinarde ! Toi tu as vécu le passage du millénaire… – Oh ! tu sais, ce qui me frappe le plus c'est que rien n'a changé. Avant, lorsque j'étais toute jeunette, on se disait qu'après le passage du millénaire il se produirait des choses extraordinaires, et tu vois, rien n'a évolué. Il y a
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How happy to see lightning and not think, “Time is fleeting!” —BASHO
Pico Iyer • Autumn Light
Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible without surrender be on good terms with all persons.
Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even to the dull and the ignorant, they too have their story. Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexations to the
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