He is almost too intelligent to be gloomy, or in any case, too much a Buddhist. He writes in one of the essays: "A certain man once said, 'Surely nothing is so delightful as the moon,' but another man rejoined, 'The dew moves me even more.' How amusing that they should have argued the point."He cherished the precarious: "The most precious thing in life is its uncertainty." He proposed a civilized aesthetic: "Leaving something incomplete makes it interesting and gives one the feeling that there is room for growth." Perfection is banal. Better asymmetry and irregularity.
from Smithsonian: The Timeless Wisdom of Kenko
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