Wherever I am, the world comes after me.
It offers me its busyness. It does not believe that I do not want it.
Now I understand why the old poets of China went so far
and high into the mountains, then crept into the pale mist.
"The Old Poets of China" by Mary Oliver

Organizers

Office of the Initiatives for Culture and the Arts
University of the Philippines Diliman

National Quincentennial Committee, National Historical Commission of the Philippines

Asian Center,
University of the Philippines Diliman