“In this dream world
We doze
And talk of dreams —
Dream, dream on,
As much as you wish”
Ryōkan (1758–1831) Japanese Buddhist monk
As translated in Lust for Enlightenment : Buddhism and Sex (1990) by John Stevens, p. 28
“All over the world, the nation, in a dream
Of money and love and sport, hangs at the paps
Of well-being, and so
Goes fattening, mellowing, dozing, rotting down
Into a rich deliquium of decay.”
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