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

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Asian Studies: Journal of Critical Perspectives on Asia is a peer-reviewed journal published since 1963 by the Asian Center, University of the Philippines Diliman.