Fujiwara no Teika quotes
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“However far I gaze Neither cherry blossoms nor Crimson leaves are in sight. Only a fisherman's hut on the shore In the autumnal evening.”
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“Looking about I see no cherry blossoms And no crimson leaves A straw-thatched hut by a bay In the autumn dusk.”
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“In the expression of the emotions, originality merits the first consideration... The words used, however, should be old ones.”
-- Fujiwara no Teika
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Source : A. R. Ammons (1996). “Set in motion: essays, interviews, and dialogues”, Univ of Michigan Pr
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Source : Aeschylus, Hugh Lloyd-Jones (1970). “Oresteia”, p.50, Univ of California Press
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“The period without the diary remains an ordeal. Every evening I want my diary as one wants opium.”
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