Kenji Miyazawa Professions : Poet Born : August 27, 1896 Died : September 21, 1933 Browse All Authors Top 5 quotes by Kenji Miyazawa We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey. She who loves roses must be patient and not cry out when she is pierced by thorns. Kenji Miyazawa pain journey rose We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey. Kenji Miyazawa positive sympathy inspirational We ordinary people must forge our own beauty. We must set fire to the greyness of our labor with the art of our own lives ... What is the essence of this art of living? Of course, even this art should have beauty as its essence. Kenji Miyazawa fire beauty art But no words will change my desire / My determination born of love / My will to set my eccentric sight / On an ever exquisite dawn Kenji Miyazawa determination sight desire These poems are a mental sketch as formed / Passage by passage of light and shade / Maintained and preserved to this point / Brought together in paper and mineral ink Kenji Miyazawa poetry light together Similar Authors Abdellatif Laabi poet Ihara Saikaku poet Abram Joseph Ryan poet Ingeborg Bachmann poet Izumi Shikibu poet Bion of Smyrna poet All Authors