Tuesday, September 20, 2005

Ryokan

Though travels
take me to
a different stopping place each night
the dream I dream is always
that same one of home
- Ryokan



Let the smallest lust for fame and fortune enter the mind,
and all the waters of the ocean will not wash it away.
- Ryokan

3 comments:

  1. "The warm traveler creates the country he passes through. And he creates it, of course, in his own image. That is why, leaving your country, I have taken with me only myself." (Nikos Kazantzakis)

    ...thank you for Ryokan

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  2. That's a nice piece...
    Thank god for Ryokan!

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  3. What I meant was, thank you for introducing me to his work.

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