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Takuboku Ishikawa Quotes

1886–1912 Japan

Ishikawa Takuboku (Japanese: 石川啄木) (February 20, 1886 – April 13, 1912) was a Japanese poet.

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Poets

Random Takuboku Ishikawa quote

3 quotes

With the troubled eyes of a youth
I envied
Birds flying—
Flying they sang.

Like to a stone
That rolls down a hill,
I have come to this day.

Running away
From the window of a classroom,
Alone,
I lay down among the ruins of a castle.

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Takuboku Ishikawa (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.