Japanese Poets

Famous quotes containing the words japanese and/or poets:

    “I am a lantern—
    My head a moon
    Of Japanese paper, my gold beaten skin
    Infinitely delicate and infinitely expensive.”
    —Sylvia Plath (1932–1963)

    “When poets go off the boil, they sound like bumble bees; when critics do, they sound like sewing machines.”
    —Mason Cooley (b. 1927)