Japanese Words

Famous quotes containing the words japanese and/or words:

“In fact, the whole of Japan is a pure invention. There is no such country, there are no such people.... The Japanese people are ... simply a mode of style, an exquisite fancy of art.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)

“Overworked assonance, nonsense,
juxtaposition of words for words’ sake
without meaning, undefined; imposition,
deception, indecisive weather-vane;
disagreeable, inconsequent syllables,
too malleable, too brittle.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)