For the Sake of Words
The poet Yasuda insists that expression must cut through the age.
Chōkōdō Shujin discusses the Japanese poet Yasuda’s argument that language must be purified to save culture itself.
“I am extremely cruel to words. Such exclamations are the fruit of the expressions of most fine poets...”
Thus begins Yojūrō Yasuda’s lengthy essay “For the Sake of Words.” The piece is, at its core, a philosophical reflection on language, p…
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