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Description: African Proverb: No matter how beautiful and well crafted a coffin might look, it will not make anyone wish for death.

Description: African Proverb: Until the Lion learns to write, every story will glorify the hunter.

Description: Isak Dinesen quote: But by the time I had nothing left, I myself was the lightest thing of all for fate to get rid of.

Description: Isak Dinesen quote: It is when people are told their own thoughts that they think they are being insulted. But why should not their own thoughts be good enough for other people to tell them?

Description: Isak Dinesen quote: Women, when they are old enough to have done with the business of being women, and can let loose their strength, must be the most powerful creatures in the whole world.

Description: Isak Dinesen quote: “Truth, like time, is an idea arising from, and dependent upon, human intercourse.”

Description: Isak Dinesen quote: Life and Death are two locked caskets, each of which contains the key to the other. Overview: Essentially, the quote highlights the philosophical idea that life and death are two sides of the same coin, two aspects of a larger reality that are intrinsically linked.

Description: Isak Dinesen quote: And I am not a novelist, really not even a writer; I am a story teller. One of my friends said about me that I think all sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them, and perhaps this is not entirely untrue. To me, the explanation of life seems to be its melody, its pattern. And I feel in life such an infinite, truly inconceivable fantasy.

Description: Isak Dinesen quote: Coffee, according to the women of Denmark, is to the body what the word of the Lord is to the soul.

Description: Isak Dinesen quote: I know of a cure for everything: salt water...in one way or the other. Sweat, or tears, or the salt sea.

Description: Marguerite Duras quote: Ecrire, c'est aussi ne pas parler. C'est se taire. C'est hurler sans bruit.

Description: Marguerite Duras quote: Writing is not speaking. It's silencing yourself. It's screaming without noise.

Description: Marguerite Duras quote: C'est drôle le bonheur, ça vient d'un seul coup, comme la colère.

Description: Marguerite Duras quote: Je n'ai jamais écrit, croyant le faire, je n'ai jamais aimé, croyant aimer, je n'ai jamais rien fait qu'attendre devant la porte fermée.

Description: Marguerite Duras quote: The solitude of writing is a solitude without which writing could not be produced, or would crumble, drained bloodless by the search for something else to write.

Description: Marguerite Duras quote:That she had so completely recovered her sanity was a source of sadness to her. One should never be cured of one's passion.

Description: Marguerite Duras quote: ...qu’elle ait si bien recouvré la raison l’attristait. On devait ne jamais guérir tout à fait de la passion.

Description: Marguerite Duras: A writer is a foreign country.

Description: Marguerite Duras: A writer is a foreign country.

Description: Marguerite Duras quote: There is no vacation from love, it doesn't exist. Love, you must live it fully, with its boredom and all, there is no possible vacation from that.

Description: Marguerite Duras quote: When the past is recaptured by the imagination, breath is put back into life.

Description: Marguerite Duras quote: Je pense à toi. Mais je ne le dis plus.

Description: Marguerite Duras quote: I think about you. But I don't say it anymore.

Description: Marguerite Duras quote: You alone became the outer surface of my life, the side I never see, and you will be that, the unknown part of me, until I die.

Description: Marguerite Duras quote: “The story of my life doesn’t exist. Does not exist. There’s never any center to it. No path, no line. There are great spaces where you pretend there used to be someone, but it’s not true, there was no one.”

Description: Marguerite Duras quote: The woman is the home. That's where she used to be, and that's where she still is. You might ask me, What if a man tries to be part of the home -- will the woman let him? I answer yes. Because then he becomes one of the children.

Description: Marguerite Duras: You have to be very fond of men. Very, very fond. You have to be very fond of them to love them. Otherwise they're simply unbearable.

Description: “Finding yourself in a hole, at the bottom of a hole, in almost total solitude, and discovering that only writing can save you. To be without the slightest subject for a book, the slightest idea for a book, is to find yourself, once again, before a book. A vast emptiness. A possible book. Before nothing. Before something like living, naked writing, like something terrible, terrible to overcome.”

Description: Marguerite Duras quote: I feel a sadness I expected and which comes only from myself. I say I’ve always been sad. That I can see the same sadness in photos of myself when I was small. That today, recognizing it as the sadness I’ve always had, I could almost call it by my own name, it’s so like me.

Description: Marguerite Duras quote: It’s not that you have to achieve anything, it’s that you have to get away from where you are.

Description: Matsuo Bashō quote: The quiet pond A frog leaps in, The sound of the water. Analysis: This haiku departs from Basho's earlier works, which often focused on the cyclical nature of life and the transience of beauty. In contrast, "The Old Pond" embraces a more focused, almost Zen-like, perspective. Its brevity and lack of ornamentation reflect the haiku genre's emphasis on minimalism and the beauty of the present moment.

Description: Matsuo Bashō quote: Winter garden, the moon thinned to a thread, insects singing.

Description: Matsuo Bashō (松尾芭蕉): A wild sea— In the distance over Sado The Milky Way

Description: Matsuo Bashō quote: Winter solitude- in a world of one colour the sound of the wind.

Description: Matsuo Bashō quote: As they begin to rise again Chrysanthemums faintly smell after the flooding rain Analysis: This haiku captures a moment of renewal and resilience. The rising flowers and the faint scent of chrysanthemum symbolize the ability to recover after a difficult time. The poem evokes a sense of hope and tranquility, offering a moment of respite from the challenges of life.

Description: Matsuo Bashō: Cold night: the wild duck, sick, falls from the sky and sleeps awhile. Analysis: This haiku captures a poignant moment in nature, depicting a wild duck's vulnerability on a cold night. The simplicity of the language and the brevity of the form convey a powerful image of the duck's plight, evoking both empathy and a sense of the harsh realities of the natural world. The poem's focus on a single moment in time is characteristic of haiku poetry, and the stark imagery is reminiscent of Basho's other works, such as his famous "Frog Pond" haiku. The poem also reflects the influence of Zen Buddhism, which emphasizes the beauty and impermanence of all things.