May 2013
33 posts
“About the grave
waves of spring mist –
I barely live.”
– Naito Joso, from Zen Poetry: Let the Spring Breeze Enter (trans. Lucien Stryk & Takashi Ikemoto)
“.春立や我家の空もなつかしき
haru tatsu ya waga ya no sora mo natsukashiki
spring’s...”
– Issa (via yama-bato)
April 2013
30 posts
“Auferre, trucidare, rapere, falsis nominibus imperium; atque, ubi solitudinem...”
– “To pillaging, massacre, plunder, they give the false name “empire”; and, where they have made desolation, they name it peace!”
- Tacitus, Of the Life and Death of Julius Agricola, XXX
Tacitus here quotes the Caledonian chieftain Calgacus, describing the expansion of the Roman empire, immediately...
