Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Kenji Miyazawa

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Japanese novelist Kenji Miyazawa.

Last updated on November 7, 2024.

Kenji Miyazawa was a Japanese novelist and poet of children's literature from Hanamaki, Iwate, in the late Taishō and early Shōwa periods. He was also known as an agricultural science teacher, a vegetarian, cellist, devout Buddhist, and utopian social activist.

Japanese - Novelist | August 27, 1896 - September 21, 1933

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But no words will change my desire / My determination born of love / My will to set my eccentric sight / On an ever exquisite dawn

Kenji Miyazawa

We ordinary people must forge our own beauty. We must set fire to the greyness of our labor with the art of our own lives ... What is the essence of this art of living? Of course, even this art should have beauty as its essence.

Kenji Miyazawa

These poems are a mental sketch as formed / Passage by passage of light and shade / Maintained and preserved to this point / Brought together in paper and mineral ink

Kenji Miyazawa

We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.

Kenji Miyazawa

We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey. She who loves roses must be patient and not cry out when she is pierced by thorns.

Kenji Miyazawa