Kitsutsuki Tanteidokoro (1999)

The reason I write poetry is to give those tiny, faint sparkles around me form, because I want to capture them somehow. And in the center of those sparkles, was you, Kyosuke-san.

If someone who composes and reads poems is a poet, then what a detective reads is a crime scene.

It seems that those who set their sights on literary goals shouldn’t simply sit on their laurels and put on airs. They need to have a noble spirit, and at the same time they need to understand the desires of the flesh or they won’t be able to create real literature.

Now that I think about it … detectives and poets might have a lot in common.