Japanese Poet

Famous quotes containing the words japanese and/or poet:

“In fact, the whole of Japan is a pure invention. There is no such country, there are no such people.... The Japanese people are ... simply a mode of style, an exquisite fancy of art.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)

“It is rare to find one who was so much of a poet and so little of an artist.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)