What you feel in Japanese poetry is always entirely longing.

People tend to take stories literally these days.

There is no hierarchy in Japanese Buddhist poetry.

The distance between the adolescent and the true adult is about five thousand miles, but the distance between the adult and the elder is almost as large.

As I've gotten older, I find I am able to be nourished more by sorrow and to distinguish it from depression.

The Roman Catholic Church early on simply adapted the hierarchical structure of the Roman Empire and confused the whole thing. Vertical attention and hierarchy were so entangled, that when the French killed the king during the Revolution, they lost much of their vertical attention too.

The models of adulthood are disappearing fast. How can two people have a new marriage if neither of them is an adult?