A Quote by Kobayashi Issa

What a strange thing! to be alive beneath cherry blossoms.

Kobayashi Issa

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Alive Beneath Blossoms Cherry Cherry Blossom Strange Strange Thing Thing

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Kobayashi Issa
Japanese - Poet
June 15, 1763 - January 5, 1828

The ancients waited for cherry blossoms, grieved when they were gone, and lamented their passing in countless poems. How very ordinary the poems had seemed to Sachiko when she read them as a girl, but now she knew, as well as one could know, that grieving over fallen cherry blossoms was more than a fad or convention.

Junichiro Tanizaki

We celebrate the cherry tree not for its efficiency but for its effectiveness - and for its beauty. Its materials are in constant flow, and all those thousands of useless cherry blossoms look gorgeous. Then they fall to the ground and become soil again, so there's no problem

William McDonough

Ah, if in this world there were no such thing as cherry blossoms, perhaps then in springtime our hearts would be at peace.

Ariwara no Narihira

The first time I saw a fingerbowl was at the home of my benefactress. [...] The water had a few cherry blossoms in it, and I thought it must be some clear sort of Japanese after-dinner soup and ate every bit of it, including the crisp little blossoms.

Sylvia Plath

The oak tree: not interested in cherry blossoms.

Matsuo Basho

From all these trees, in the salads, the soup, everywhere, cherry blossoms fall.

Matsuo Basho

For in spite of the snapdragons and the duty millers and the cherry blossoms, it was always winter.

Janet Frame

Break open A cherry tree And there are no flowers; But the spring breeze Brings forth myriad blossoms.

Ikkyu

Just as cherry, plum, peach and damson blossoms all possess their own unique qualities, each person is unique. We cannot become someone else. The important thing is that we live true to ourselves and cause the great flower of our lives to blossom.