Nanao Sakaki Quotes

• If you have time to chatter, Read books. If you have time to read, Walk into mountain, desert and ocean. If you have time to walk, Sing songs and dance. If you have time to dance, Sit quietly, you Happy Lucky Idiot.

  Nanao Sakaki

  Song, Ocean, Book

  "Happy Lucky Idiot". Poem by Nanao Sakaki, first published in his book "Break the Mirror", 1987.

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• To stay young,
  To save the world,
  Break the mirror.

  Nanao Sakaki

  Mirrors, World, Break

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• Just Enough Soil for legs Axe for hands Flower for eyes Bird for ears Mushrooms for nose Smile for mouth Songs for lungs Sweat for skin Wind for mind.

  Nanao Sakaki

  Song, Flower, Eye

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• I don't climb mountains. Mountains climb me. The mountain is myself. I climb on myself.

  Nanao Sakaki

  Journey, Hiking, Mountain

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• If he had had no education, maybe Basho could have been a much greater poet.

  Nanao Sakaki

  Poet, Could Have Been, Has Beens

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