concerning them, people or galaxies or asuras or sea urchins
as they eat cosmic dust or breath air and saltwater
may each come up with fresh ontologies
but in the end those will be but single scenes in their minds
yet surely these recorded landscapes
are recorded landscapes just as they are
and if they are nothing then that is just as nothing is
and to a certain degree they are shared by all
 (because just as everything is everyone within me
    I am everything within everyone)

 

— Excerpt from Spring and Asura, Miyazawa Kenji, January 20, 1924. Translated by Moss Quanci.