Kakinomoto no Hitomaro Quotes

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I am completely indebted to Jimmy Baldwin's prose. It liberated me as a writer. These poems overwhelm without competing with his prose, and I am grateful to have this collection.
James Baldwin
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Li Yi-an was the greatest poetess of China. Once her husband asked one of his friends to pick out the best lines that he liked from a number of his poems, having, however, concealed in them some pieces by his wife. The friend picked out, to his dismay, only lines from her pen.
Li Qingzhao
My hunter of dragonflies,
How far
has he wandered today?
Chiyo-ni
What is a homeland? It is a place that enables people to blossom, and not a place in which people serve the flag. In my poem, Cease-fire with the Mongolians, I say that I am going to make socks out of the flag. My life's work is not on behalf of a flag.
Mahmoud Darwish
[https://www.aldiwan.net/poem101679.html]
Abū al-ʿAlāʾ al-Maʿarrī
His poems generally known as the Luzumiyat arrest attention by their boldness and originality as well as by the sombre and earnest tone which pervades them.
Abū al-ʿAlāʾ al-Maʿarrī
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[http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/li_ching_chao/poems Li Ching Chao Poems and Poetry] at Famous Poets and Poems
Li Qingzhao
[http://www.poesia-inter.net/indexpn.htm Original poems] - It includes some translations and audio files. All poems are sourced
Pablo Neruda
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[http://www.redpoppy.net/pablo_neruda.php Red Poppy] a non-profit dedicated to furthering Neruda's commitment to humanitarianism and spreading his poetry around the world. Home of the critically acclaimed, bestselling "The Essential Neruda: Selected Poems" and the documentary "Pablo Neruda: The Poet's Calling
Pablo Neruda
The fact that Saigyō composed the poem that begins, "I shall be unhappy without loneliness," shows that he made loneliness his master. He also wrote:
In the mountain village
who are you calling, yobuko-bird?
I thought you lived alone.
Matsuo Bashō
It is our dreams that point the way to freedom. Those dreams are made realizable through our poems that give us the strength and courage to see, to feel, to speak, and to dare.
Cynthia Cooper-Dyke
There is, for me, no difference between writing a good poem and moving into sunlight against the body of a woman I love.
Cynthia Cooper-Dyke
[http://www.humanistictexts.org/al_ma'arri.htm Al-Maʿarri's poems (in English)]
Abu al-'Ala' al-Ma'arri
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Kurokami no
Shira kami made to
Musubiteshi
Kokoro hitotsu wo
Ima takame ya mo
Kakinomoto no Hitomaro