"…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)
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
A Fine Vintage of Poetry
I can get drunk on the words alone they get inside me and intoxicate me fermenting to a fine vintage of poetry
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