Quotes from Kenji Miyazawa

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

We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.

But no words will change my desire / My determination born of love / My will to set my eccentric sight / On an ever exquisite dawn

We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey

Everyone calls him Blockhead No one sings his praises Or takes him to heart... That is the kind of person I want to be

But no matter how far he flew, he didn't get any closer to the sun.

We're standing among the heavens, we're sitting within the phosphorescent flame of a star. Our fondest wish has been granted… Oh, Santa Maria!

The fox came to pay the birch tree a vist, bringing with him a book of poetry. He was wearing a dark blue suit fresh from the tailor's, and his light brown leather shoes squeaked slightly as he walked.

She was gentle and pale, and her eyes seemed always to dream of something I didn't understand.

When I'm reborn I'll be born, the next time, so I won't suffer only for myself like this.

Or as if all the world's diamonds, that the diamond companies hide in order to keep prices up, had been abruptly dumped out and scattered recklessly all over.

What a blessing to be able to walk half a day in such a bright vault and in grass! I'd be glad to be crucified for it. It's like having a glimpse of one's love

What I hate most is the majority that rests in comfort upon its mediocre accomplishments.

No matter what her sins in a former life, may her illness, her pain, be transferred to me.

Like a bird, like a squirrel, you longed for the woods. How you must have envied me! Ah my sister, you will leave for a distant place before the day ends, are you truly going alone? Ask me to come with you.

Do?ru yolda ilerlerken kar??la??lan zorluklar?n ve tecrübe edilen tüm ini? ç?k??lar?n her biri, asl?nda bizi gerçek mutlulu?a yakla?t?ran birer ad?md?r.

With all of us nursing you— Must you still prolong the agony of life? While I, having lost my hold on the tremendous Faith, Having divested myself of purity and suchlike humble items, Now walk in the sombre bluish world of the Asura. --- Silent Wail