…out, I mean, how much there is in English literature which is profoundly Zen-like. I mean, Wordsworth is full of Zen and Whitman is full of Zen. Many, many people have this sort of attitude towards nature. I mean, the Japanese artistic representation of…

…extension. are able to take in, so to speak, a greater amount of material and to give order to it than the smaller artist. Whitman has some interesting remarks on this. He says, the messages of great poets to each man and women are come to us on equal…

…of our view of art and of culture. So that we now know that there are many different kinds of art, and that as Whitman says, there are many forms of the supreme, and that these all have a perfect right to their own existence. We see this, I…

…the literature of the early 19th century, above all, and through the later 19th century, the nature mysticism of Wordsworth in England, of Whitman in many of his writings in this country. and which is a kind of, as I say, an artistic reminder of our…

…many other poets, was a thing which I feel to have been enormously healthy and valuable We find it in this country, in Whitman, above all, I think, in certain of the short essays in Specimen Days, which have a kind of quietness about them, which much…