Lucien Stryk Quotes

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To rid the grass of weed, to get
The whole root,
Thick, tangled, takes a strong mind

And desire - to make clean, make pure.
The weed, tough
As the rock it leaps against,

Unless plucked to the last
Live fiber
Will plunge up through dark again.

The weed also has the desire
To make clean,
Make pure, there against the rock.

Lucien Stryk

Lucien Stryk

Lucien Stryk

Born: April 7, 1924

Died: January 24, 2013 (aged 88)

Bio: Lucien Stryk was an American poet, translator of Buddhist literature and Zen poetry, and former English professor at Northern Illinois University.

Known for:

Zen Poems of China and Japan (1973)
World of the Buddha (1968)
And still birds sing (1998)
Encounter with Zen (1981)
The awakened self (1995)

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