Finnish Quote by Lafcadio Hearn

Perhaps there is an idea among Japanese students that one general difference between Japanese and Western poetry is that the former cultivates short forms…

— Lafcadio Hearn

What you feel in Japanese poetry is always entirely longing.

— Robert Bly

I am an admirer of haiku, and I'm a great admirer of Japanese literature in general.

— Richard Flanagan

When the poet's sentiments are overly visible, the audience may become uncomfortable. Japanese ritual is the opposite. By writing simply and only about what…

— Naoto Fukasawa

I often imagine that the longer he studies English literature the more the Japanese student must be astonished at the extraordinary predominance given to…

— Lafcadio Hearn

“This book by Dr. Yasuda, while ostensibly about haiku, in reality penetrates deeply into the totality of this living spirit of Japan. It deals…

— Kenneth Yasuda

I feel my poetry has contributed through all these languages that I needed to learn leading up to English.

— Masiela Lusha

It is true that short forms of poetry have been cultivated in the Far East more than in modern Europe; but in all European…

— Lafcadio Hearn

I didn't read so much Japanese literature. Because my father was a teacher of Japanese literature, I just wanted to do something else.

— Haruki Murakami

Poetry is like air. It's one of the necessary things. Everyone benefits from poetry. And as you know, poetry is international. There are only…

— Nikki Giovanni

Students often have such a lofty idea of what a poem is, and I want them to realize that their own lives are where…

— Yusef Komunyakaa

I did not have a very literary background. I came to poetry from the sciences and mathematics, and also through an interest in Japanese…

— Robert Morgan