Masaoka Shiki Quotes

#1. Do you know at this very moment you are surrounded by eternity? And do you know that you can use that eternity if you so desire?

Carlos Castaneda

#2. The test of liberty is the position and security of minorities.

Lord Acton

#3. If you can ride through Texas with somebody, which is 700 miles of just straight, flat freeway riding, then you can be friends with them forever.

Katee Sackhoff

#4. how much longer
is my life?
a brief night...

Shiki Masaoka

#5. Sin may have the power to kill and destroy, but God is the Creator of life. He can create it from nothing, and He can restore it from death.(John 11:25-26)

Charles R. Swindoll

#6. Ask any woman in an arranged marriage. Love is the least stressful way out.

Fay Weldon

#7. I believe in the equality of man and woman," Rulan insisted.

"Ah," Madame Wu said, "two equals are nevertheless not the same two things. They are equal in importance, equally necessary to life, but not the same,

Pearl S. Buck

#8. People seemed to think, you get to a certain age or you get married or you, you're comfortable. And so now there's nothing to write about: that angst is gone. The youthful angst. And that just hasn't happened with me.

Lucinda Williams

#9. Interface, of the resonant interval as 'where the action is', whether chemical, psychic or social, involves touch.

Marshall McLuhan

#10. Always someone resting there - a lone rock in the summer field

Masaoka Shiki

#11. the wall iris
opens its buds:
before my eyes
the last spring
begins to fade

Shiki Masaoka

#12. A pear tree is blooming, by a collapsed house, on an old battlefield.

Masaoka Shiki

#13. Having examined three thousand haiku poems - two persimmons.

Masaoka Shiki

#14. 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

#15. wakened by pain
from a dream of pain
I wipe the sweat
and rose petals
scatter

Shiki Masaoka

#16. thinking how soon
all in this world passes
I loved
the yellow roses
that now have scattered

Shiki Masaoka

#17. two feet tall,
the crimson-budded roses,
their young thorns
tender in
the soft spring rain

Shiki Masaoka

#18. Peace is a certain resistance to the terrible satisfactions of war. It's a commitment to living with a certain kind of vulnerability to others and susceptibility to being wounded that actually gives our individual lives meaning.

Judith Butler

#19. 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

#20. I tried to speak your poems
but I could not!
The weeping of the gods
fell upon my ears.

Shiki Masaoka