All Good Work Is Done The Way

I Often Imagine That The Longer He Studies English Literature The More The Japanese Student Must Be Astonished At The Extraordinary Predominance Given To The Passion Of Love Both In Fiction And In Poetry.

Literary Success Of Any Enduring Kind Is Made By Refusing To Do What Publishers Want, By Refusing To Write What The Public Wants, By Refusing To Accept Any Popular Standard, By Refusing To Write Anything To Order.

The Time Of Illusion, Then, Is The Beautiful Moment Of Passion; It Represents The Artistic Zone In Which The Poet Or Romance Writer Ought To Be Free To Do The Very Best That He Can.

The Tea Ceremony Requires Years Of Training And Practice ... Yet The Whole Of This Art, As To Its Detail, Signifies No More Than The Making And Serving Of A Cup Of Tea. The Supremely Important Matter Is That The Act Be Performed In The Most Perfect, Most Polite, Most Graceful, Most Charming Manner Possible.

Is Woman A Religion? Well, Perhaps You Will Have The Chance Of Judging For Yourselves If You Go To America. There You Will Find Men Treating Women With Just The Same Respect Formerly Accorded Only To Religious Dignitaries Or To Great Nobles.