Translation is always a treason, and as a Ming author observes, can at its best be only the reverse side of a brocade- all the threads are there, but not the subtlety of colour or design.
Fain would we remain barbarians, if our claim to civilization were to be based on the gruesome glory of war. - Okakura Kakuzo
Fain would we remain barbarians, if our claim to civilization were to be based on the gruesome glory of war.
- Okakura Kakuzo
Tea...is a religion of the art of life. - Okakura Kakuzo
Tea...is a religion of the art of life.
Teaism is a cult founded on the adoration of the beautiful among the sordid facts of everyday existence. It inculcates purity and harmony, the myster… - Okakura Kakuzo
Teaism is a cult founded on the adoration of the beautiful among the sordid facts of everyday existence. It inculcates purity and harmony, the myster…
In joy or sadness, flowers are our constant friends. - Okakura Kakuzo
In joy or sadness, flowers are our constant friends.
In our common parlance we speak of the man "with no tea" in him, when he is insusceptible to the serio-comic interests of the personal drama. - Okakura Kakuzo
In our common parlance we speak of the man "with no tea" in him, when he is insusceptible to the serio-comic interests of the personal drama.
Tea began as a medicine and grew into a beverage. - Okakura Kakuzo
Tea began as a medicine and grew into a beverage.
Let us dream of evanescence, and linger in the beautiful foolishness of things. - Okakura Kakuzo
Let us dream of evanescence, and linger in the beautiful foolishness of things.
Cares melt when you kneel in your garden. - Okakura Kakuzo
Cares melt when you kneel in your garden.
True beauty could be discovered only by one who mentally complete the incomplete. - Okakura Kakuzo
True beauty could be discovered only by one who mentally complete the incomplete.
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