Tragedies are about the depths that call up to certain men and insist that they descend.

The sibling society is the flattening out of the previously democratic society.

In the society that has replaced the paternalistic society, women are able to develop their independent and social energies much more. That is good.

There is no hierarchy in Japanese Buddhist poetry.

The best poems take long journeys. I like poetry best that journeys--while remaining in the human scale--to the other world, which may be a place as easily overlooked as a bee's wing

By the time a man is 35 he knows that the images of the right man, the tough man, the true man which he received in high school do not work in life.

Siblings tend not to care much about boundaries and borders. Having worn each others' T-shirts, it's unlikely that they'd go to war over a border.