There is now a tendency in that direction.

I do not know whether such attempts will be successful; but I should like you to understand that for Western poets they are extremely difficult and that you ought to obtain from the recognition of this fact a new sense of the real value of your own short forms of verse in the hands of a master.

Effects can be produced in Japanese which the Greeks could produce with few syllables, but which the English can not.

Now it strikes me that, instead of even thinking of throwing away old forms of verse in order to invent new ones, the future Japanese poets ought rather to develop and cultivate and prize the forms already existing, which belong to the genius of the language, and which have proved themselves capable of much that no English verse or even French verse could accomplish.

Perhaps only the Italian is really comparable to Japanese in some respects; you can perform miracles with Italian verse..