Blog | Poetry and Dance: Confucius |
“Poetry is where the heart’s wishes go. What lies in the heart is ‘wish’, when expressed in words, it is ‘poetry’. When an emotion stirs within one, one expresses it in words; finding this inadequate, one sighs over it; not content with this, one sings it in poetry; still not satisfied, one unconsciously dances with one’s hands and feet.” From the “Preface to The Book of Poetry.”
