There is a Japanese word for things made more beautiful by use, that bear the evidence of their own making, or the individuating marks of time’s passage: a kind of beauty not immune to time but embedded in it.

Mark Doty /  Still Life with Oysters and Lemon: On Objects and Intimacy

December 21, 2018 · Good words · mark doty · japanese · quotes


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