“Rain-diamonds, this winter morning, embellish the tangle of unpruned pear-tree twigs; each solitaire, placed, it appearrs, with considered judgement, bears the light beneath the rifted clouds — the indivisible shared out in endless abundance.”
Bearing the Light
Sands of the Well (1994)
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"Clear After Rain" (雨晴), as translated by Kenneth Rexroth in One Hundred Poems from the Chinese (1971), p. 16

A still Day in Autumn.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“In the morning glad I see
My foe outstretch'd beneath the tree.”
Ibid., st. 4
1790s, Songs of Experience (1794)

Source: De architectura (The Ten Books On Architecture) (~ 15BC), Book II, Chapter I, Sec. 3

“Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.”
Epistle I, To Lord Cobham (1734), line 150
Moral Essays (1731–1735)

The Aquarian Conspiracy (1980), Chapter Eleven, Spiritual Adventure: Connection to the Source