“The materials for poetry are all about you in profusion.”
Quote by Masaoka Shiki
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“A pear tree is blooming, by a collapsed house, on an old battlefield.”
“Though mothers and fathers give us life, it is money alone which preserves it.”
Source: Nippon Eitaigura: The Way to Wealth
“There is always something to upset the most careful of human calculations.”
Source: The Japanese Family Storehouse, Or, The Millionaires' Gospel Modernised
“To make a fortune some assistance from fate is essential. Ability alone is insufficient.”
Source: The Japanese Family Storehouse: Or, The Millionaire's Gospel Modernised. Nippon Eitai-gura, Or Daifuku Shin Chōja Kyō (1688)
“If making money is a slow process, losing it is quickly done.”
Source: The Japanese Family Storehouse: Or, The Millionaire's Gospel Modernised. Nippon Eitai-gura, Or Daifuku Shin Chōja Kyō (1688)
“Forever and forever and forever”
Source: Lustra of Ezra Pound, with Earlier Poems
“Real things in the darkness seem no realer than dreams.”
Source: The Tale of Genji
Source: Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan
