Kenji Miyazawa Quotes

#1. 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

#2. I love great locations in movies, and I couldn't believe I'd never seen a landfill on screen before. It was the most haunting place.

Lucy Walker

#3. 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 Miyazawa

#4. It's probably those lactose-intolerant freaks. We all know there's nothing cool about intolerance.

Caprice Crane

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

Kenji Miyazawa

#6. 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.

Kenji Miyazawa

#7. 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

#8. There are still things out there in the universe to contemplate and spend our lives chasing.

Leigh Newman

#9. There's something in this particular practice that can teach us Cristians a powerful lesson, that we may see so vividly our own wretched state, that it's not this world we should cherish but the promise of the next.

Joseph Boyden

#10. But I love him."
"So love him."
"But I miss him."
"So miss him. Send him love and light every time you think about him, and then drop it.

Elizabeth Gilbert