"…Living only for the moment, turning our full attention to the pleasures of the moon, the snow, the cherry blossoms and the maple leaves; singing songs, drinking wine, diverting ourselves just floating, floating….refusing to be disheartened, like a gourd floating along with the river current; this is what we call the floating world…” Asai Ryoi, in Ukiyo Monogatari (Tales of the Floating World, 1661)
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Where does a smile go?
"Where does a smile go, or the upward glance, the sudden warm movement of the heart? Yet that is what we are. Does the universe we dissolve into taste of us a little?" Rainer Maria Rilke, "The Second Elegy"
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