“The tongue, the Chinese say,
is like a sharp knife:
it kills
without drawing blood.”
Anne Sexton (1928–1974) poet from the United States
"The Dead Heart"
The Awful Rowing Toward God (1975)
“My new knight mistress is famed for wielding sharp edges: Sword, Knife and Tongue!”
Source: Squire
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The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon (1819–1820)
Source: "Rip Van Winkle".
Miyamoto Musashi (1584–1645) Japanese martial artist, writer, artist
Go Rin No Sho (1645), The Water Book
Context: Knowing the Way of the long sword means we can wield with two fingers the sword that we usually carry. If we know the path of the sword well, we can wield it easily.
If you try to wield the long sword quickly you will mistake the Way. To wield the long sword well you must wield it calmly. If you try to wield it quickly, like a folding fan or a short sword, you will err by using "short sword chopping". You cannot cut a man with a long sword using this method.
“Those who do not fear the sword they wield have no right to wield a sword at all.
~Shuhei Hisagi”
Tite Kubo (1977) Japanese manga artist
Variant: He who does not fear the sword he holds is not worthy of holding a sword.
-Hisagi Shuuhei
“New eras don't come about because of swords, they're created by the people who wield them.”
Nobuhiro Watsuki (1970) Japanese manga artist
“We are told by the word of the Gospel that in this His fold there are two swords—a spiritual, namely, and a temporal. […] Both swords, the spiritual and the material, therefore, are in the power of the Church; the one, indeed, to be wielded for the Church, the other by the Church; the one by the hand of the priest, the other by the hand of kings and knights, but at the will and sufferance of the priest.”
In hac ejusque potestate duos esse gladios, spiritualem videlicet et temporalem, evangelicis dictis instruimur. […] Uterque ergo est in potestate ecclesiae, spiritualis scilicet gladius et materialis. Sed is quidem pro ecclesia, ille vero ab ecclesia exercendus, ille sacerdotis, is manu regum et militum, sed ad nutum et patientiam sacerdotis.
Pope Boniface VIII Unam sanctam
Unam sanctam (1302)
Tite Kubo (1977) Japanese manga artist
Source: Bleach, Volume 05
“There is no fast way of wielding the long sword.”
Miyamoto Musashi (1584–1645) Japanese martial artist, writer, artist
Go Rin No Sho (1645), The Ground Book
Context: There is no fast way of wielding the long sword. The long sword should be wielded broadly, and the companion sword closely. This is the first thing to realise.
According to this Ichi school, you can win with a long weapon, and yet you can also win with a short weapon. In short, the Way of the Ichi school is the spirit of winning, whatever the weapon and whatever its size.