Kenji Miyazawa quotes
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“We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.”
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“We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey. She who loves roses must be patient and not cry out when she is pierced by thorns.”
-- Kenji MiyazawaSource : Olga Broumas (1999). “Rave: poems, 1975-1999”, Copper Canyon Pr
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“We ordinary people must forge our own beauty. We must set fire to the greyness of our labor with the art of our own lives ... What is the essence of this art of living? Of course, even this art should have beauty as its essence.”
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“But no words will change my desire / My determination born of love / My will to set my eccentric sight / On an ever exquisite dawn”
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“These poems are a mental sketch as formed / Passage by passage of light and shade / Maintained and preserved to this point / Brought together in paper and mineral ink”
-- Kenji MiyazawaSource : Kenji Miyazawa (2007). “Strong in the Rain: Selected Poems”, Bloodaxe Books Limited
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“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.”
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Source : Ada Leverson (1962). “The little Ottleys: Love's shadow. Tenterhooks. Love at second sight”
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