Japanese Poets

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“In fact, the whole of Japan is a pure invention. There is no such country, there are no such people.... The Japanese people are ... simply a mode of style, an exquisite fancy of art.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)

“He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.”
—John Dryden (1631–1700)