For All My Walking Quotes

“edge of town
all graveyard
and the sound of waves”
― Santōka Taneda, For All My Walking: Free-Verse Haiku of Taneda Santōka with Excerpts from His Diary

“People view all things, all events in terms of what they value in life, with that as their standard. I look at everything through the eyes of sake. Gazing far off at a mountain, I think how I’d like a little drink; I see some nice vegetables and think how well they’d go with the sake. If I had such-and-such sum, I could polish off a flask; if I had this much, I could buy a bottle. You may laugh, but that’s just the way I am—nothing I can do about it.”
― Santōka Taneda, For All My Walking: Free-Verse Haiku of Taneda Santōka with Excerpts from His Diary

“Ah—sake, sake, sake—up to now I’ve lived for sake, and this is what it’s gotten me! Sake—devil or buddha, poison or curative?”
― Santōka Taneda, For All My Walking: Free-Verse Haiku of Taneda Santōka with Excerpts from His Diary