Japanese Contemporary Poetry

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“The Japanese have perfected good manners and made them indistinguishable from rudeness.”
—Paul Theroux (b. 1941)

“A sort of war of revenge on the intellect is what, for some reason, thrives in the contemporary social atmosphere.”
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“I by no means rank poetry high in the scale of intelligence—this may look like affectation but it is my real opinion. It is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake.”
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