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Lafcadio Hearn

" The highest duty of the man is not to his father, but to his wife; and for the sake of that woman he abandons all other earthly ties, should any of these happen to interfere with that relation "

Father , Man , Duty , Wife , Woman

" It is true that short forms of poetry have been cultivated in the Far East more than in modern Europe; but in all European literature short forms of poetry are to be found - indeed quite as short as anything in Japanese "

Poetry , Literature , Europe

" Of course, the simple explanation of the fact is that marriage is the most important act of man's life in Europe or America, and that everything depends upon it "

Man , Fact , Marriage , Europe

" Perhaps there is an idea among Japanese students that one general difference between Japanese and Western poetry is that the former cultivates short forms and the latter longer ones, gut this is only in part true "

Difference , Poetry

" The great principle of Western society is that competition rules here as it rules in everything els. The best man - that is to say, the strongest and cleverest - is likely to get the best woman, in the sense of the most beautiful person "

Man , Society , Woman , Sense , Competition , Rules

" The proverbial philosophy of a people helps us to understand more about them than any other kind of literature "

People , Philosophy , Literature

" The subject of Finnish poetry ought to have a special interest for the Japanese student, if only for the reason that Finnish poetry comes more closely in many respects to Japanese poetry than any other form of Western poetry "

Poetry , Reason , Interest

" The time of illusion, then, is the beautiful moment of passion; it represents the artistic zone in which the poet or romance writer ought to be free to do the very best that he can "

Time , Passion , Writer , Romance , Zone

" The Western poet and writer of romance has exactly the same kind of difficulty in comprehending Eastern subjects as you have in comprehending Western subjects "

Writer , Romance , Difficulty

" There was very little suicide among the men of the North, because every man considered it his duty to get killed, not to kill himself; and to kill himself would have seemed cowardly, as implying fear of being killed by others "

Man , Men , Fear , Duty , Suicide

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