Hokku 77
Is there anything new under the sun? Certainly there is. See how a bird flies, how flowers smile !
Yone Noguchi
Is there anything new under the sun? Certainly there is. See how a bird flies, how flowers smile !
At first the question sounds weary: “Is there anything new under the sun?” It echoes an old saying that everything has already happened. But the speaker refuses that mood. “Certainly there is,” he insists, and then he points to the simplest proof: a bird flying, flowers smiling.
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