Kobayashi Issa Quotes

27 quotes in 245 categories

• Even with insects - some can sing, some can't.
• There is no stranger under the cherry tree.
• Listen, all creeping things, the bell of transience.
• Face of the spring moon- about twelve years old, I'd say.
• In spring rain a pretty girl yawning.
• Moon, plum blossoms, this, that, and the day goes
• Red morning sky - snail, are you glad of it?
• To the fuki plant, dandelions, and their kind that lie for long patiently under the fallen snow, comes the season of breezy spring. No sooner…
• Summer night-- even the stars are whispering to each other.
• Here I'm here- the snow falling.
• What a strange thing! to be alive beneath cherry blossoms.
• The world of dew is the world of dew. And yet, and yet--
• Where there are humans, You'll find flies, And Buddhas.
• Don't kill!... The fly is asking you To save his life By rubbing his hands together
• All the time I pray to Buddha I keep on killing mosquitoes.
• Even in warmest glow how cold my shadow
• Don't weep, insects -- Lovers, stars themselves, Must part.
• In the cherry blossom's shade there's no such thing as a stranger.
• Reflected in the dragonfly's eye -- mountains.
• O snail Climb Mount Fuji But slowly, slowly!

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