"the incurious seeker"
Canetti, Beckett, Dickinson, Krynicki, Issa
Elias Canetti (tr. from German by John Hargraves):
Samuel Beckett (tr. from French by Samuel Beckett):
Emily Dickinson:
gaze / For which / I cease to / live—
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Ryszard Krynicki (tr. from Polish by Alissa Valles):
Kobayashi Issa (tr. from Japanese by R.H. Blyth):
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I appreciate Dickinson’s line break across opposition: “cease to / live—“
On “nothing,” I love Buddhist dharma talks on emptiness and nothing.
Something out of nothings.