how to enjoy haiku.

I was always like, “okay, that’s nice I guess? But what was your point?” I was thinking of them in terms of words, because they’re made of words, and I’m a verbal thinker. But a haiku is not about words at all, it’s incredibly visual. I know that seems blindingly obvious! But listen! A haiku magically creates a very beautiful 2-... See more

Clarity is a wonderful, indeed beautiful, thing, where it can be achieved without loss of truth. We cannot let ourselves off the hook of striving for it. But we need also to know the proper place to stop. Its application is limited, and on a larger scale its virtue becomes a vice; then it is no longer the agent of truth, but – somewhat paradoxicall

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