List of Lafcadio Hearn Quotes

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.

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.

One Of The Great Defects Of English Books Printed In The Last Century Is The Want Of An Index.

Literary Success Of Any Enduring Kind Is Made By Refusing To Do What Publishers Want, By Refusing To Write What The Public Wants, By Refusing To Accept Any Popular Standard, By Refusing To Write Anything To Order.

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.

Accordingly The Northern Races Of Europe Found Their Inspiration In The Bible; And The Enthusiasm For It Has Not Yet Quite Faded Away.

My Friends Are Much More Dangerous Than My Enemies. These Latter - With Infinite Subtlety - Spin Webs To Keep Me Out Of Places Where I Hate To Go, - And Tell Stories Of Me To People Whom It Would Be Vanity And Vexation To Meet; - And They Help Me So Much By Their Unconscious Aid That I Almost Love Them.

But The History Of The Changes Produced By A Universal Idea Is Not A History Of Changes In The Individual, But Of Changes Brought About By The Successive Efforts Of Millions Of Individuals In The Course Of Many Generations.

It Is No Exaggeration To Say That The English Bible Is, Next To Shakespeare, The Greatest Work In English Literature, And That It Will Have Much More Influence Than Even Shakespeare Upon The Written And Spoken Language Of The English Race.

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.

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.

Some Persons Have Ventured To Say That It Is Only Since Englishmen Ceased To Believe In The Bible That They Began To Discover How Beautiful It Was.