Kyoto In Winter
Winter solitude–
In a world of one color
The sound of wind.
— Matsuo Bashō, , “Winter solitude”
Tags: Beauty | Haiku | Japan | Matsuo Bashō | Peace | Poetry | Snow | Winter
The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error.
Winter solitude–
In a world of one color
The sound of wind.
— Matsuo Bashō, , “Winter solitude”
Tags: Beauty | Haiku | Japan | Matsuo Bashō | Peace | Poetry | Snow | Winter
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