“I start to run, and my nose fills with the smell of rain and wet earth. I run along the shoulder of… — Jon Harrison Copy Share Image
“So he raced from dogwood to blossoming peach. When they thinned out he headed for the cherry blossoms, then magnolia, chinaberry, pecan,… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“Let us find inner freedom in each lucky moment that we encounter, like a sun-basking butterfly that finds peace on a cherry… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
“However wildly this year's cherry blossoms bloom, I'll see them with the plum's scent filling my heart.” — Ono no Komachi Copy Share Image
“we are holding hands in the barrel of a gun. they pull the trigger, but when she is kissing me only cherry… — Topaz Winters Copy Share Image
“Lord Karasumaru considered it a grave mistake on the part of the gods to have made a man like himself a nobleman.… — Eiji Yoshikawa Copy Share Image
Koishikawa Korakuen Garden - one of Tokyo's oldest Japanese gardens, and one of the best spots for viewing the cherry blossoms. — Peter Marino Copy Share Image
“he said this turning his strong body to face the beautiful, stunning, breathtaking, astonishing, bewildering girl who was a princess and his… — J.K. Ashton Copy Share Image
Look at the cherry blossoms! Their color and scent fall with them, Are gone forever, Yet mindless The spring comes again. — Ikkyu Copy Share Image
I often stay in Tokyo's Daikanyama neighbourhood. You can go for a peaceful morning run along the Meguro river, and it is… — Joe Gebbia Copy Share Image
Outside it's a perfect spring night. We stand on the sidewalk in front of our apartment building, and Henry takes my hand,… — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image
Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough. — A. E. Housman Copy Share Image
If I were asked to explain the Japanese spirit, I would say it is wild cherry blossoms glowing in the morning sun! — Motoori Norinaga Copy Share Image
The first time I saw a fingerbowl was at the home of my benefactress. [...] The water had a few cherry blossoms… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“Beauty was all around them. Unsuspected tintings glimmered in the dark demesnes of the woods and glowed in their alluring by-ways. The… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
From all these trees, in the salads, the soup, everywhere, cherry blossoms fall. — Matsuo Basho Copy Share Image
“A species in which everyone was General Patton would not succeed, any more than would a race in which everyone was Vincent… — Allen Shawn Copy Share Image
“It is rather a strange and sad story,’ he went on after a pause. ‘When the world was young, and the woods… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Ah, if in this world there were no such thing as cherry blossoms, perhaps then in springtime our hearts would be at… — Ariwara no Narihira Copy Share Image
“living only for the moment, savouring the moon, the snow, the cherry blossoms, and the maple leaves, singing songs, drinking wine, and… — Asai Ryoi Copy Share Image
It may just be because I get homesick, but I have concluded Washington's cherry blossoms are just plain overrated. — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
“Beauty is the wilful celebration of the self. The Cherry Blossom blooms but it does not try to be a Lotus Flower.” — Kerry Cue Copy Share Image
“I thought of how Midori had once articulated the idea of mono no aware, a sensibility that, though frequently obscured during cherry… — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
“Cursing, Kyle opened the bottom cabinet and found a bottle of scented lotion. Cherry Blossom. What irony.” — Jennifer Ashley Copy Share Image
