That tension between dreaming of a past and knowing you’d have been excluded from it... Talley names it so clearly. And still, he made space for so many sparks after him.

The character 創 in sōzō of course means “beginning” or “origin,” but the fact that the beginning of something is also a wound (創)—
I find that deeply meaningful.

— Hiroshi Yoshino
“Shi no Susume: Shi to Kotoba no Tsūro”
(The Way of Poetry: A Passage Through Words)

3/3
The test is how far you can stand without anything to lean on. Thinking always proceeds in a zigzag manner.
— Kiyokazu Washida

2/3
This requires the toughness to think things through without being rushed or carried away by smooth words, and to patiently explore the paths to be taken.