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Taiga?s True Views: The Language of Landscape Painting in Eighteenth-Century Japan by Melinda Takeuchi (1994-06-01)
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"My resistance to the general slogan 'we must present the drama and agony of our times' is a deep one. When reality surpasses the imagination in boldness, then poetic exaggeration becomes useless, and the affectation of pain becomes a mere coarsening of blood and tears. On the contrary, I think that a poet must find those spiritual powers which may counterbalance this drama and this agony. He must aim at such a resynthesis of the fragments of reality that he may pass from 'what is' to 'what may be'."
- Odysseus Elytis
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