# 6506 / common places • common thing • winter ~ I don't want / need no stinkin' metaphors

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IT WAS WRITTEN BY SOMEONE somewhere (or so wrote Stephen Shore):

Chinese poetry rarely trespasses beyond the bounds of actuality… the great Chinese poets accept the world exactly as they find it in all its terms and with profound simplicity… they seldom talk about one thing in terms of another; but are able enough and sure enough as artists to make the ultimately exact terms become the beautiful terms.

If there were to be a credo for making straight photographs-bits lifted from the visceral world with such tact and cunning that they seem true-iMo, this would be it.