"Beauty can be coaxed out of ugliness .

 Wabi-sabi is ambivalent about separating beauty

 from non-beauty or ugliness. The beauty of

 Wabi-Sabi is, in one respect, the condition

 of coming to terms with what you consider ugly.

 Wabi-Sabi suggests that beauty is a dynamic 

 event that occurs between you and something else. 

 Beauty can spontaneously occur at any moment 

 given the proper circumstances, context, or 

 point of view. Beauty is thus an altered state

 of consciousness an extraordinary state of

 beauty and grace."

 The Wabi-Sabi state of mind is often communicated

 through poetry, because poetry lends itself to

 emotional expression and strong, reverbating images

 that seem "larger" than the small verbal frame 

 that holds them(thus evoking the larger universe).

 Wabi- Sabi was brought to its apotheosis by

 Sen no Rikyu (1522-1591 )who used this oft-repeated 

 poem by Fujiwara no Teika (1162-1241) to describe 

 the mood of Wabi-Sabi."



          All around, no flowers in bloom

               Nor maple leaves in glare,

           A solitary fisherman's hut alone 

               On the twilight shore

                Of this autumn eve.



Thoughts from Leonard Koren's book Wabi-Sabi