There is nothing you can see that is not a Bashoflower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Some things just can't be described. And stepping onto the moon was one of them.
Which is why we cannot say of the purloined letter that, like other objects, it must be or not be in a particular place but that unlike them it will be and not be where it is, wherever it goes.
The moon of a bright silver, which dazzles by its shining, illumines a world which surely is no longer ours; for it resembles in nothing what may be seen in other lands.
But I'm the only one who can paint the moon, because I'm the only one who knows whether that's right or not.
Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.
Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things look different in moonlight.
There is no such thing as good painting about nothing.
The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing.
Whatever is not commonly seen is condemned as alien.
The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
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