Chinese Aphorism.

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    Only by the form, the pattern,
    Can words or music reach
    The stillness, as a Chinese jar still
    Moves perpetually in its stillness.
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)

    The haiku lets meaning float; the aphorism pins it down.
    Mason Cooley (b. 1927)