Miyazawa Kenji Quotes

“She was gentle and pale,
and her eyes seemed
always to dream
of something I didn’t understand.”
― Kenji Miyazawa, Miyazawa Kenji: Selections (Poets for the Millennium)

“When I’m reborn
I’ll be born, the next time, so I won’t suffer
only for myself like this.”
― Kenji Miyazawa, Miyazawa Kenji: Selections (Poets for the Millennium)

“No matter what her sins in a former life,
may her illness, her pain,
be transferred to me.”
― Kenji Miyazawa, Miyazawa Kenji: Selections (Poets for the Millennium)

“What I hate most
is the majority that rests in comfort
upon its mediocre accomplishments.”
― Kenji Miyazawa, Miyazawa Kenji: Selections (Poets for the Millennium)

“What a blessing
to be able to walk half a day
in such a bright vault and in grass!
I’d be glad to be crucified for it.
It’s like having a glimpse of one’s love”
― Kenji Miyazawa, Miyazawa Kenji: Selections (Poets for the Millennium)

“Like a bird, like a squirrel,
you longed for the woods.
How you must have envied me!
Ah my sister, you will leave for a distant place before the day ends,
are you truly going alone?
Ask me to come with you.”
― Kenji Miyazawa, Miyazawa Kenji: Selections (Poets for the Millennium)