Ikkyu Poetry Quotes & Sayings

We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues. — Henry Fielding

Christmas is a huge thing in my family. We usually start decorating the day after Thanksgiving. We spend Christmas Eve with one set of grandparents, and Christmas Day with the other grandparents and our family. — Samantha Isler

It isn't that we're alone or not alone
whose voice do you want mine? yours? — Ikkyu

We are always in these days endeavoring to separate intellect and manual labor; we want one man to be always thinking, and another to be always working, and we call one a gentleman, and the other an operative; whereas the workman ought often to be thinking, and the thinker often to be working, and both should be gentlemen in the best sense. — John Ruskin

He paused, letting the tension mount. His solemn gaze met mine. "How long are you going to make me wait?"
I considered making a joke. Blowing the whole thing off like nothing had happened. But I cared about Adam too much to dismiss his genuine interest with careless sarcasm. "I don't know."
He stared at me for a few moments. Behind his eyes I could see the wheels turning. Weighing the options and eventualities. Finally, he breathed out through his nose, like expelling bad energy. "Well, I guess that's better than 'never'. — Jaye Wells

That stone Buddha deserves all the
birdshit it gets
I wave my skinny arms like a tall
flower in the wind — Ikkyu

Paris is a wonderful city. I can't say I belong to an especially anglophone community. — Marilyn Hacker

Clouds very high look
not one word helped them get up there — Ikkyu

Comedy writing is taking the brief thought and going with it. — Chris O'Dowd

Don't wait for the man standing in the
snow
to cut off his arm help him now — Ikkyu

When I was in the U.S. for 'Swimming Pool,' people had asked me, 'So are you going to settle down in Hollywood?' And I said, 'No, I'm French! I am living in France. I am not going to be American.' — Ludivine Sagnier

Needing kindness myself, I am kinder now, and we get on amazingly well. [p. 110] — Lionel Shriver

We're lost where the mind can't find us
utterly lost — Ikkyu

In the end, raising money is basically a matter of going out there and asking. There are no shortcuts. — Georgette Mosbacher

Hearing a crow with no mouth
Cry in the deep
Darkness of the night,
I feel a longing for
My father before he was born. — Ikkyu

Born born everything is always born
thinking about it try not to — Ikkyu

I'd love to give you something
but what would help? — Ikkyu

Christ, he was paranoid about criticism. I used to say: why doesn't he worry about the team and forget what people are saying? He got Phil Thompson, who was a kid coming through when I was a Liverpool player, to have a go at me. So now I don't talk to him. — Ian St. John