In her book, Haiku Mind, Patricia Donegan explains that Robert Aitken was incarcerated in a Japanese prison camp in 1944. By chance he met a R.H Blyth, a translator of haiku. Robert began a study of this poetry form. I wonder, did having this purpose on in life pull him through? I once read about a man who survived Auschwitz who when asked why he never gave up? He replied, "I began reading a book and I wanted to finish it."
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In her book, Haiku Mind, Patricia Donegan explains that Robert Aitken was incarcerated in a Japanese prison camp in 1944. By chance he met a R.H Blyth, a translator of haiku. Robert began a study of this poetry form. I wonder, did having this purpose on in life pull him through? I once read about a man who survived Auschwitz who when asked why he never gave up? He replied, "I began reading a book and I wanted to finish it."
I wonder what that book was?