Japanese Tanka Poet

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“The Japanese say, “If the flower is to be beautiful, it must be cultivated.””
—Lester Cole, U.S. screenwriter, Nathaniel Curtis, and Frank Lloyd. Nick Condon (James Cagney)

“As long as there is satire, the poet is, as it were, particeps criminis.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)