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… — Kenji Miyazawa Copy Share Image
We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey. She who loves roses must be patient and not cry out when… — Kenji Miyazawa Copy Share Image
But no words will change my desire / My determination born of love / My will to set my eccentric sight / On an ever exquisite dawn — Kenji Miyazawa Copy Share Image
“Everyone calls him Blockhead No one sings his praises Or takes him to heart... That is the kind of person I want to be” — Kenji Miyazawa Copy Share Image
We ordinary people must forge our own beauty. We must set fire to the greyness of our labor with the art of our own… — Kenji Miyazawa Copy Share Image
These poems are a mental sketch as formed / Passage by passage of light and shade / Maintained and preserved to this point /… — Kenji Miyazawa Copy Share Image
