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Summer grasses— all that remains of warriors’ dreams.

Matsuo BashoOku no Hosomichi

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This line looks outward at history and lets impermanence appear through landscape. It leans toward an external standard. Because it is brief, it can widen toward memory, loss, ambition, and the quiet fading of human glory into the ongoing life of nature.