強く生きる tsuyoku ikiru Live Strong

A resolution, not a command. The verb stands in the plain form a person uses to say what they will do. So the line is I will live strongly as much as live strong. Japanese had it as a catchword of the magazines a century ago. The poet who wanted it for her whole country took care to say that strength in arms alone is not the whole of living strongly. What you are strong for is the part that is yours: an illness, a loss, a beginning, or a rule to live by.

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