"I omit the usual—the hurricanes and earthquakes—and describe the common. This has the greatest charm and is the true theme of poetry. You may have the extraordinary for your province, if you will let me have the ordinary. Give me the obscure life, the cottage of the poor and humble, the workdays of the world, the barren fields, the smallest share of all things but poetic perception. Give me but the eyes to see the things which you possess."
from The Journal of Henry David Thoreau, 28-Aug-1851
THERE AND GONE ….
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Here is an autumn hokku kindly shared by a reader in Japan: In a moment,It
no longer is —The rainbow. When we look at English poetry, it is common to
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3 weeks ago
2 comments:
Yeah, Henry! Like the fortune cookie I got last night: "Stop searching forever. Happiness is just next to you." ~Amy @ ever so humble
Yeah, I blogged this too. Damn near sank my entire blog, though. Karmic retribution, perhaps - in endeavoring to "see the things which you possess" I may have cast to covetous an eye . . .
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