Impressive Words


"It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple."

                                                                -Rabindranath Tagore 

☆ Yes, I recently think so too in many situations, and would like to live in simplicity. 

My Haiku Poem at This Season

（季節のマイ俳句&ハイク）

音もなき風花駅のホームにて

I'm on the platform,

seeing silent snowflakes  

dancing in the wind

Impressive Words

"It seemed to me that I must have walked into the wrong 

arcade; I wondered whether there was another one in a 

different part of the amusement park, the true penny arcade 

that had enchanted my childhood."

                      -Steven Millhauser, In the Penny Arcade

☆ Excellent!  Sometimes I have the same feeling.

Impressive Words

"In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer."

                                                             

                                                           -Albert Camus

☆ Wow, not spring but summer! I want to be like that too.

Impressive Words

While reading a book, I happened to encounter the following 
sentence:

"The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes; in seeing the universe through the eyes of another, one hundred others - in seeing the hundred universes that each of them sees."

☆ Yes, it's Marcel Proust's words. Great!

My Haiku Poem at This Season

（季節のマイ俳句&ハイク）

大寒や日差しもありて街歩き

The coldest day of the year-

I strolled along the street,

enjoying the sunshine

Impressive Words

（印象に残っている言葉を英語で）

「街燈の光のなかを、灰色のつきない群になって舞いおりてくる雪を、久々でみる。」

                    （辻邦生『パリの手記3-街そして形象』より）

Japanese novelist Kunio Tsuji wrote down in his Paris diary:

"After a long time, I was seeing gray snow falling in endless clusters in the light of the streetlamps."

              （英訳の責任は管理人にあります。更新する場合があります。）

My Haiku Poem at This Season

（季節のマイ俳句&ハイク）

光年の星のなか行く冬の月





The winter moon is high 


in the sky with starlight 


from many light-years away

Impresssive words

"They peered into low-lit living rooms, intimate domestic scenes that were fair game from street level, each holding the secret of how to get by but revealing nothing. They slowed again, as if only faint streetlamps, the hollow moon, chill air, sidewalk cracks, the smell of a cold front rushing down a street already folded and put away for the night, only this collected instant, could lead them to the specific weight and exactness of the world. They had fallen upon the legendary there, or as close as they could push to it, and all life after tonight would amount to trying to re-create this moment."

                                   ーRichard Powers, Prisoner's Dilemma 


☆ Beautiful scene and that meaningful.

From the Latest News 

The Guardian 

Maev Kennedy

Sunday 11 January 2015 13.44 GMT

JK Rowling attacks Murdoch for tweet blaming all Muslims for Charlie Hebdo deaths

Peaceful Muslims are no more responsible for terror than I am for Murdoch, says Harry Potter author

“I was born Christian. If that makes Rupert Murdoch my responsibility, I’ll auto-excommunicate,” she tweeted on Sunday.

☆ Great! JK Rowling is a sound-thinking person.

Impressive Words

Responding to an interview with the Guardian newspaper, American novelist Richard Powers once said the following:




"We will live with racism for ever. But senses of self, senses of belonging, senses of us and of others? Those are up for grabs."







☆Profound thought-provoking words.

From the Latest News 

BBC 

11 January 2015 Last updated at 23:28

Paris attacks: Millions rally for unity in France

More than three million people have taken part in unity marches across France after 17 people died during three days of deadly attacks in Paris.

Up to 1.6m are estimated to have taken to the streets of the French capital.

More than 40 world leaders joined the start of the Paris march, linking arms in an act of solidarity.

The marchers wanted to demonstrate unity after the attacks on satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, police officers, and a kosher supermarket.

The French government said the rally turnout was the highest on record.

The rally, led by relatives of the victims of last week's attacks, began at the Place de la Republique and concluded in the Place de la Nation. 

Several other French cities also held rallies. The interior ministry said turnout across France was at least 3.7 million, including up to 1.6 million in Paris - where sheer numbers made an exact tally difficult. 

Rallies also took place outside of France, with thousands of people gathering in London, Washington, Montreal and Berlin. 

In Madrid, several hundred Muslims held banners saying "Not in our name" next to the train station where in 2004 Islamist bombings killed nearly 200 people.

World leaders, including British Prime Minister David Cameron, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, Malian President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, EU President Donald Tusk, and Jordan's King Abdullah II joined the beginning of the Paris march.

"Paris is the capital of the world today," French leader Francois Hollande said.

The leaders observed a minute's silence before the march began.

About 2,000 police officers and 1,350 soldiers - including elite marksmen on rooftops - were deployed in the capital to protect participants.

From the Latest News 

The Guardian 
      Jon Henly in Paris and Emma Graham-Harrison
      The Observer, Sunday 11 January 2015

France will shout its love for liberty and tolerance. Come in numbers’

One million expected in Paris as a country unites in grief and defiance

Up to a million people – including dozens of world leaders – will converge on Paris on Sunday in a show of defiance and unity after terrorist attacks that left 17 people dead last week in the French capital.

I would like to pray for the victims of terrorism in Paris.

My Haiku Poem at This Season
（季節のマイ俳句&ハイク）



パリへ句稿送信してより初句会



The New Year's first haiku gathering-


I submitted my poems


to Paris by email

My Haiku Poem at This Season

（季節のマイ俳句&ハイク）

出会ひあり別れもありて去年今年

From last year to the New Year-

various meetings 

and partings 

Impressive Words

（印象に残っている言葉を英語で）

「鉄橋も、雨も、踏切りも、線路のそばの工場も、裏町も、すべてこうした詩的甘美さをよびおこす『イマージュ』となっている。『物語』的なときめきを感じさせる。」

                                    （辻邦生『モンマルトル日記』より）

Japanese novelist Kunio Tsuji once wrote down in his diary:

"Railway bridges, rains, crossings, factories by railroads, back street districts and all are the images which put me in mind of such poetic sweetness. Each of them makes me feel narrative excitement."

                       （英訳の責任は管理人にあります。更新する場合があります。）

Impressive Words

“Art, he said, was a controlled madness...He said that books weren't made of themes, which you could write essays about, but of images that inserted themselves into your brain and replaced what you were seeing with your eyes.” 

― Steven Millhauser, Dangerous Laughter

Impressive Words

“On the ride back south, she tapped all the anger-management tricks they'd given her in job training. They played across her windshield like PowerPoint slides. Number One: It's not about you. Number Two: Your plan is not the world's. Number Three: The mind can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven. (24)” 

― Richard Powers, The Echo Maker

My Haiku Poem at This Season

（季節のマイ俳句&ハイク）

若水で沸かせし珈琲香る朝

The fragrance of coffee made with the first water 

drawn on the morning of New Year's Day

greeted my nostrils 

日本から新春のお慶びを申し上げます。

 Very best wishes for a happy new year from Japan.