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Confucius, excerpts from Analects, translated by Wing-Tsit Chan, from A Source Book in Chinese Philosophy. Copyright © 1963 and renewed 1991 by Princeton University Press. Reprinted by permission of Princeton University Press.
E. E. Cummings, “which is the very” from Complete Poems 1904–1962, edited by George J. Firmage. Copyright 1944, © 1971, 1984, 1991 by the Trustees for the E. E. Cummings Trust. Used by permission of Liveright Publishing Corporation.
Lao Tzu, excerpts from Tao Te Ching, translated by D. C. Lau. Copyright © 1963 by D. C. Lau. Reprinted by permission of Penguin Group (UK) Ltd.
T. C. Boyle, excerpts from Drop City. Copyright © 2003 by T. Coraghessan Boyle. Used by permission of Viking Penguin, a division of Penguin Group (USA) Inc. and Georges Borchardt, Inc., for the author.