104 Quotes About Japanese-literature

I can only bow to the will of the heaven, but not to the will of these men.

Here--you warriors--why this moaning and complaining? Have you no more sense than toads and vipers? Our time hasn't come. Have you no patience? Are we not the 'trodden weed' still? The time is not yet here for us to raise our heads. Must you still complain?

Through his mad fancying he remembered Mokunosuke's words: "Whoever you are, you are a man after all. You are no cripple with those fine limbs." Whether he was the son of an emperor or the child of an intrigue, was he not a child of the heavens and the earth?

I seem to hear thousands of voices--the voices of the common folk in the marketplace--urging me to go forward and do what must be done. More is at stake now than my life. On me turns the future of the warriors. Let's not quibble longer, lest this rare opportunity slip through my fingers.

We were watching a battle, but it took clean forms.

The flowing rivernever stopsand yet the waternever stays the same.Foam floatsupon the pools, scattering, re-forming,never lingering long. So it is with man and all his dwelling places here on earth

«Но ведь когда смотрят, будто ножом вырезают твой облик, кажется, что срывают одежду…»

The stars pass.The moon passes. Blue clouds pass above the mountains to the north.The years go by." Empress Jito

În literatura japoneză ceea ce rămîne neexprimat se ia în seamă cu tot atîta grijă ca şi ceea ce se exprimă, la fel cum în pictura japoneză spaţiile goale sînt făcute să aibă o putere de evocare la fel de mare cu a munţilor şi pinilor îngrijit conturaţi. Pare că se manifestă mereu o împotrivire instinctivă la rostirea cuvintelor limpezi, fie ele „sînt atît de fericit" sau „e atîta tristeţe". Rareori este acceptată prezentarea în totalitate a unei privelişti sau a unei experienţe.