Takuboku Ishikawa

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

Quotes
That rolls down a hill, I have come to this day.
 * Like to a stone
 * A Handful of Sand ("Ichiaku no Suna"), as translated by Shio Sakanishi

I envied Birds flying— Flying they sang.
 * With the troubled eyes of a youth
 * A Handful of Sand ("Ichiaku no Suna"), as translated by Shio Sakanishi

Mado yori nigete Tada hitori Kano shiro-ato ni Ne ni yukishi ka na'' From the window of a classroom, Alone, I lay down among the ruins of a castle.
 * ''Kyoshitsu no
 * Running away
 * In: Modern Japanese Literature, ed. Donald Keene (New York: Grove Press, 1960), p. 208

Quotes about Ishikawa

 * Ishikawa was a poet of great ability who wanted to develop critical realism', but dealt too 'emotively' with human suffering and was isolated from the mainstream of socialist activity. He was passionately in sympathy with the latter, but is marked down as a 'romantic'.
 * E. Stuart Kirby, Russian Studies of Japan: An Exploratory Survey (1981), p. 103