To their poetry he is ever sensitive.

His appreciation of them is something phenomenal, and his power of presentation worthy his appreciation.
A Japanese painting is a poem rather than a picture.

It portrays an emotion called up by a scene, and not the scene itself in all its elaborate complexity.

It undertakes to give only so much of it as is vital to that particular feeling, and intentionally omits all irrelevant details.

It is the expression caught from a glimpse of the soul of nature by the soul of man; the mirror of a mood, passing, perhaps, in fact, but perpetuated thus to fancy.