人間は一本の葦に…

IMAGE: Man is no more than a reed, the weakest in nature. But he is a thinking reed.

人間は一本の葦(あし)に過ぎない。自然の中で最も弱い存在だ。しかし、人間は考える葦である。 – ブレーズ・パスカル (1623 – 62): 『パンセ』 More »

木ほど美しい、詩に…

IMAGE: I think that I shall never see / A poem lovely as a tree. //...// Poems are made by fools like me, / But only God can make a tree. //

木ほど美しい、詩に、/巡り逢うことはないだろう。//…//詩を作るは我ら愚か者の仕業、/木を創るはただ神の御業。// – ジョイス・キルマー (1886 – 1918): 『木』 More »

What is form that…

IMAGE: What is form that is emptiness, what is emptiness that is form. [Form is not other than emptiness, emptiness is not other than form. / Form is exactly emptiness, emptiness exactly form.]

What is form that is emptiness, what is emptiness that is form. [Form is not other than emptiness, emptiness is not other than form. / Form is exactly emptiness, emptiness exactly form.] – Prajñâ-Pâramitâ-Hridaya-Sûtra [The Great Heart of Wisdom Sutra… More »

色即是空、空即是色…

IMAGE: What is form that is emptiness, what is emptiness that is form. [Form is not other than emptiness, emptiness is not other than form. / Form is exactly emptiness, emptiness exactly form.]

色即是空(しきそくぜくう)、空即是色(くうそくぜしき)。 – 『般若波羅蜜多心経(はんにゃはらみつたしんぎょう)』 / (色は即ち是れ空なり(しきはすなわちこれくうなり)、空は即ち是れ色なり(くうはすなわちこれしきなり)。) More »

一冊の小説は…

IMAGE: A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and a multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life.

一冊の小説は、「ほんの少しの正しい印象」と、我々が人生と呼ぶものの大部分を構成する「無数の間違った印象」との間を、往ったり来たりするものだ。 – ソール・ベロー (1915 – 2005) More »

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