“Life is no quest of longevity and days:Where are the flowers a hundred years old?””
The spirit of Japanese poetry
Quotes by Yoné Noguchi
“The real test for poets is how far they resist their impulse to utterance, or, in another word, to the publication of their own work”
The spirit of Japanese poetry
“Oh Lord, is it the reflection of my heart on fire?Is it, my Lord, the rain carrying tragedy from the Heavens?””
Selected Poems of Yone Noguchi
“The real test for pots is how far they resist their impulse to utterance, or, in another word, to the publication of their own work”
The spirit of Japanese poetry
“The things useless are the things most useful under different circumstances (to give one example: a little stone lazy by a stream, which becomes important when you happen to hear its sermon), he will see that the aspect of uselessness in poetry is to be doubly valued since its usefulness is always born from it like the day out of the bosom of night.””
The spirit of Japanese poetry
“The Western poet would be better off by parting from Christianity, social reform, and what not. I think it is time for them to live more of the passive side of Life and Nature; so as to make the meaning of the whole of them perfect and clear, to value the beauty of inaction so as to emphasise action, to think of Death so as to make Life more attractive.””
The spirit of Japanese poetry
Yoné NoguchiYoné Noguchi was a prominent Japanese poet and writer who played a crucial role in introducing Japanese literature to the Western world. Born in 1875 in the Kumamoto Prefecture, Noguchi's early life w...