Top 18 Masaoka Quotes
#1. the wall iris
opens its buds:
before my eyes
the last spring
begins to fade
Shiki Masaoka
#2. Love yourself and don't settle for less than what you deserve.
Bethenny Frankel
#3. I tried to speak your poems
but I could not!
The weeping of the gods
fell upon my ears.
Shiki Masaoka
#4. Take your materials from what is around you - if you see a dandelion, write about that; if it's misty, write about the mist. The materials for poetry are all about you in profusion.
Masaoka Shiki
#5. two feet tall,
the crimson-budded roses,
their young thorns
tender in
the soft spring rain
Shiki Masaoka
#6. thinking how soon
all in this world passes
I loved
the yellow roses
that now have scattered
Shiki Masaoka
#7. wakened by pain
from a dream of pain
I wipe the sweat
and rose petals
scatter
Shiki Masaoka
#9. I do not know the day
my pain will end yet
in the little garden
I had them plant
seeds of autumn flowers
Shiki Masaoka
#10. Having examined three thousand haiku poems - two persimmons.
Masaoka Shiki
#11. but underneath that lurked horrors, like a syphilitic dick hidden under a blanket.
Kevin Hearne
#12. A pear tree is blooming, by a collapsed house, on an old battlefield.
Masaoka Shiki
#13. Krishna says, fight. He says, go out on the battlefield and kill those people whom it's your job to kill; and whether they were your friends or not, you have to look at the big picture. In the big picture, you can't go kill anybody, you can't be killed.
Frederick Lenz
#14. Always someone resting there - a lone rock in the summer field
Masaoka Shiki
#16. I enjoy the company of other people. That's where I get most of my satisfaction from
Richard Branson
#18. Some tears belong to us because we are unfortunate; others, because we are humane; many, because we are mortal. But most are caused by our being unwise. It is these last only that of necessity produce more.
Leigh Hunt
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