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Tamura Ryuichi: The Inner Pathway
I believe what is most important for a poet is the point in time and place at which he discovers his own archetypal poem. That is because this archetype represents the entirety of the “mapless journey” he is destined to take, and contains therein all concepts of time, death and love as a single entity. It seems to me that a poet perilously travels through the discovery and re-discoveries of the archetype, and his journey takes the form of battles against his own archetype. * To a poet, imagination is the energy that ceaselessly stimulates and re-creates his passion.Read More