I give you a new definition of a sentence:
A sentence is a sound in itself on which other sounds called words may be strung.
You may string words together without a sentence sound to string them on just as you may tie clothes together by the sleeve and stretch them without a clothes line between two trees, but—it is bad for the clothes.
2/22/1914
BEFORE AND AFTER
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Masaoka Shiki (1867-1902) wrote two rather similar yet effective autumn
verses. Though he would have called them “haiku” because of his revisionist
tendenc...
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