“Do not shy away from the sensations I create, Cherry Blossom. Take pride in them, as I do.” — Red Phoenix Copy Share Image
Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough. — A. E. Housman Copy Share Image
From all these trees, in the salads, the soup, everywhere, cherry blossoms fall. — Matsuo Basho 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
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
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
“But you’re out of another world old kid … You ought to live on top of the Woolworth Building in an apartment… — John Dos Passos 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
For in spite of the snapdragons and the duty millers and the cherry blossoms, it was always winter. — Janet Frame 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 Japanese school year begins in spring ... so mothers can send off their children as cherry blossoms fall from the branches. — Cathy Davidson Copy Share Image
The ancients waited for cherry blossoms, grieved when they were gone, and lamented their passing in countless poems. How very ordinary the… — Junichiro Tanizaki Copy Share Image
“The last of the cherry blossom. On the tree, it turns ever more perfect. And when it’s perfect, it falls. And then… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Cherry blossoms, the noble flower, witness to many an encounter over time. Cherry blossoms, the vain flower, have watched many a farewell.… — Japanese Manga Copy Share Image
“Suffering has brought clarity into my life. Maybe the things that have happened to me are punishment for what I did in… — Lisa See Copy Share Image
“A goodbye at the gate," said Hobie. He seemed to be talking partly to himself. "That's what he would have wanted. The… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
The cherry blossom tree is truly a sight to behold, especially when it is in full riotous bloom. There are several varieties… — Homaro Cantu Copy Share Image
When I was a kid growing up, we had a cherry tree in the backyard, 100 years old. I climbed it, and… — Andrew Wyatt Copy Share Image
“Light as feathers, as fleeting as Zephyr, one moment they breathed pink, the next they faded. Cherry blossoms were as much an… — Alice Poon Copy Share Image
“Why do you weep, child? We of the Floating World live only for the moment, giving all our time to the pleasures… — James Clavell Copy Share Image
“Do you know what I wish?” Skylar held Xander’s hand tight as he looked up at the falling leaves. “I wish we… — Heidi Cullinan 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
“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
“Yesterday, I had a dream... A dream I have had since long ago. In that dream, we had yet to turn 13.… — Makoto Shinkai Copy Share Image
“I cannot pretend that I understood my mother at the end of her life. I was trying to follow the goals she… — Liza Dalby Copy Share Image
“There's a saying in Japan, and it has to do with cherry-blossom viewing: hana yori dango (Dumplings over flowers). It basically means… — Amanda Sun Copy Share Image
“The blossoms seem unusually lovely this year. There were none of the scarlet-and-white-striped curtains that are set up among the blossoming trees… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
“Oh," he said again and picked up two petals of cherry blossom which he folded together like a sandwich and ate slowly.… — Mary Norton Copy Share Image
“Should we only be interested to view the cherry blossoms at their peak, or the moon when it is full? To yearn… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Skylar laughed a lot in these scenes. He was happy. He was always helping people too—a whole section depicted him playing hero… — Heidi Cullinan 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
“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
“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
“Be confident in who you are, Cherry Blossom. Confidence and an understanding of who you are is an alluring combination men won't… — Red Phoenix Copy Share Image
