"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
JUST BECAUSE IT’S TRUE DOES NOT MAKE IT HOKKU
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A rather weak autumn hokku by Bashō. I post it only because today the
weather had turned from sunny to a bit cool and windy, and on a walk I
happened to pa...
1 day 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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