Japanese Tanka 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)

    “Ah wretched We, Poets of Earth! but Thou
    Wert Living the same Poet which thou’rt Now,
    Whilst Angels sing to thee their ayres divine,
    And joy in an applause so great as thine.
    Equal society with them to hold,
    Thou need’st not make new Songs, but say the Old.”
    —Abraham Cowley (1618–1667)