It Is True That Short Forms Of Poetry Have Been Cultivated In The Far East More Than In Modern Europe; But In All European Literature Short Forms Of Poetry Are To Be Found - Indeed Quite As Short As Anything In Japanese. - SearchQuotes

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It is true that short forms of poetry have been cultivated in the Far East more than in modern Europe; but in all European literature short forms of poetry are to be found - indeed quite as short as anything in Japanese.

Lafcadio Hearn

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