Japanese Poets Quotes & Sayings

On every Bright Eyes record, there's some kind of sound collage that begins it. Some of them have dialogue, some don't. I like it because it can kind of slow down the attention span a bit. It's a way to draw you in to the rest of the record. — Conor Oberst

When the scope of the problem seems insuperable, isn't it time to call this one, give it up, and get on with life as we know it. I do know that answer to that one: that's called child abuse. When my teenager worries that her generation won't be able to fix this problem, I have to admit to her that it won't be up to her generation. It's up to mine. This is a now-or-never kind of project. — Barbara Kingsolver

How can you work on letting your thoughts go and getting synchronized into the moment and questioning your wild imagination. But I say just think of all the great Japanese and Chinese poets and scholars who were also meditators. — Anne Waldman

People aren't just flesh and blood. They're soul and spirit, too. When two people join physically, they also join spiritually, creating a soul-tie with each — Lee Strauss

My stories run up and bite me on the leg - I respond by writing down everything that goes on during the bite. When I finish the idea lets go and runs off. — Ray Bradbury

Just be happy that it is what it is and not what it could be because after all, it could always be worse — Connor George Serbin

Don't Seek Happiness. If you seek it, you won't find it, because seeking is the antithesis of happiness — Eckhart Tolle

The colonel nodded. "Our childhood seems so far away now. All this" - he gestured out of the vehicle - "so much suffering. One of our Japanese poets, a court lady many years ago, wrote how sad this was. She wrote of how our childhood becomes like a foreign land once we have grown."
"Well, Colonel, it's hardly a foreign land to me. In many ways, it's where I've continued to live all my life. It's only now I've started to make my journey from it. — Kazuo Ishiguro

I need a dual-vector foil for cleansing. — Liu Cixin

If you have time to chatter,
Read books.
If you have time to read,
Walk into mountain, desert and ocean.
If you have time to walk,
Sing songs and dance.
If you have time to dance,
Sit quietly, you happy, lucky idiot. — Nanao Sakaki

Like the bud of a flower, change forces you to surrender to growth. It makes you vulnerable. It requires you to enlarge, expand and become bigger. Like the oxygen provided with each breath, we are denied its benefits until we relax and breathe in. — Stella Payton

Grandma Ponder said, Show me a man wears a diamond ring, and I'll show you a wife beater. — Eudora Welty