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August 16, 2007

Deep Thought Thursday

When Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Gary Snyder traveled to Japan during the Korean War, or so the story goes, the immigration officials wouldn't let him in. They changed their minds when he wrote this poem on one of the forms:

Making a cup of tea,
I stop the war.

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