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We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.
Kenji Miyazawa
We must accept suffering and use it as a propulsion for our progress.
2.
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
3.
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
4.
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
5.
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
