Fujiwara no Teika famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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However far I gaze Neither cherry blossoms nor Crimson leaves are in sight. Only a fisherman's hut on the shore In the autumnal evening.
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Looking about I see no cherry blossoms And no crimson leaves A straw-thatched hut by a bay In the autumn dusk.
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In the expression of the emotions, originality merits the first consideration... The words used, however, should be old ones.
-- Fujiwara no Teika
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Even if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the events along the route cannot be imagined to be the same from day to day, as the poet's health, sight, his anticipations, moods, fears, thoughts cannot be the same.
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the walk liberating, I was released from forms, from the perpendiculars, straight lines, blocks, boxes, binds of thought into the hues, shadings, rises, flowing bends and blends of sight ...
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As for being much known by sight, and pointed out, I cannot comprehend the honor that lies withal; whatsoever it be, every mountebank has it more than the best doctor.
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For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.
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Got a brand new semi-automatic weapon with a laser sight. Oh, I'm praying that somebody tries to break in here tonight.
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Reason, I sacrifice you to the evening breeze.
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There was an extensive collection of cookbooks in the well-stocked library, and he took to pouring over these in the evenings.
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The period without the diary remains an ordeal. Every evening I want my diary as one wants opium.
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There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pete, Georgie and Dim, Dim being really dim, and we sat in the Korova Milkbar making up our rassoodocks what to do with the evening.
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My best evenings are at home with my lady.
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