Kenji Miyazawa's most famous lines (with sources)
The top 3 according to 151 votes from people: Unbeaten by the rain, unbeaten by the wind, unbowed by snow or summer heat, with a strong body, free of greed, never angry… · There can be no happiness for the individual until the whole world is happy. · I'm not afraid of that great darkness anymore. I will go and look for everyone's true happiness.. (Updated May 25, 2021.)
"Unbeaten by the rain, unbeaten by the wind", "There can be no happiness for the individual until the whole world is happy" and Giovanni and Campanella on the Galactic Railroad: the most quoted lines of Japanese poet and storyteller Kenji Miyazawa, with their source.
Automatically translated (original in 日本語). See the original
Top 14
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Unbeaten by the rain, unbeaten by the wind, unbowed by snow or summer heat, with a strong body, free of greed, never angry…
"Ame ni mo makezu" (poem written in his notebook, 1931).
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There can be no happiness for the individual until the whole world is happy.
Outline of Peasant Art Theory (1926).
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I'm not afraid of that great darkness anymore. I will go and look for everyone's true happiness.
Night on the Galactic Railroad.
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My little sister, who will go far away before this day is out: the sleet is falling and outside it is strangely bright.
Spring and Asura, "The Morning of the Last Farewell" (1922).
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If it is in search of everyone's true happiness, we must not regret it even if we are sealed in this pitch-dark sea.
Spring and Asura, supplement, "Elegy at Soya".
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Let's go together, on and on, as far as we can.
Night on the Galactic Railroad.
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Ihatov is a place name: it is Iwate Prefecture in Japan, as a land of dreams.
The Restaurant of Many Orders, publicity text (1924).
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I will go straight ahead, I promise. I will seek true happiness.
Night on the Galactic Railroad.
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The phenomenon called "I" is one blue illumination of a hypothetical, organic alternating-current lamp.
Spring and Asura, preface (1924).
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Poetry, naked, goes to explore the borders that theory cannot reach. It is a life-or-death undertaking.
"Notes on Poetics".
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Doddo-dododo-do, dodo-do, dodo: blow away the green walnuts, blow away the sour quinces.
Matasaburo of the Wind.
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Please, God, look into my heart. Do not let me throw my life away for nothing; next time, use my body for the true happiness of everyone.
Night on the Galactic Railroad.
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Even without as much rock sugar as we would like, we can eat the clear, transparent wind and drink the beautiful peach-coloured morning sunlight.
The Restaurant of Many Orders, preface (1924).
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What we were all shouting about a moment ago as a fire was a rainbow. It has been standing taut for an hour now.
Spring and Asura, "Report".
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小学校で「雨ニモマケズ」を暗唱させられたけど、大人になってから読むと全然違って聞こえる。