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In sections titled “Cherish,” “Perfect,” “Consider,” “Savor,” “Purify” and “Harmonize,” Ms. Kondo poetically skips through ideas and customs ubiquitous in Japanese culture.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 12, 2025

"Martin has never been the most poetically complex of lyricists," added The Telegraph's Neil McCormick, but "does the world really need" songs that sound "like Instagram self-help slogans?"

From BBC • Oct. 4, 2024

For three millennia, Jews have invoked a “return” to Jerusalem from exile and a deliverance from “the Lord of time, history and justice” poetically and ritually, but not always really.

From Salon • Mar. 31, 2024

Anno’s style as a filmmaker is sui generis and it’s often impossible to tell what is awkward and what is poetically surreal.

From New York Times • Oct. 27, 2023

All three dwell on the pain of love, embodied poetically in the natural world.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall