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These quotes and phrases came to me courtesy of the Arlington Library Book Sale book bin. My new favorite spot: the box of “gift books”: quote books, guides, dictionaries, translations. Best of all, they’re all thrown randomly together. From this collection on this trip, I gleaned the following lines, poems all:

“The wind and the cherry blossom can never be good friends.” – Guy A. Zona, Even Withered Trees Give Prosperity to the Mountain and other Proverbs of Japan.

“Do not forget the plum, blooming, in the thicket.” – Basho, Haiku

“entweurf (ger.): the composition of a fugue.”- Louis C. Elson, Elson’s Pocket Music Dictionary, 1939.

“In “floating-world pictures” – ukiyo-e – the Kaigetsudo painters who worked at the first part of the 18th century created the universal symbol, the Kaigetsudo courtesan, standing in silent grandeur, in robes of brilliant design, swathed in a swirl of dynamic black lines.” – Library of Japanese Art: Kaigetsudo. 1959.

“I have arrived/ I am home / in the here/ and the now/ I am solid/I am free/ in the ultimate/I dwell.” – Thich Nhat Hanh. “The Long Road Turns to Joy: A Guide to Walking Meditation.

“saw the red blossoms in the night light, sun’s gone, they had all gone, in a moment” – Allen Ginsberg

“Conveniently accessible to street car and bus lines are the rugged primeval areas of the upper Potomac Valley, little changed by man through the centuries.” — Capital Transit Company. 1946. 25 hikes in and near Washington.

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