Cherries Quote by Fujiwara no Teika

Looking about I see no cherry blossoms And no crimson leaves A straw-thatched hut by a bay In the autumn dusk.

— Fujiwara no Teika

Are we to look at cherry blossoms only in full bloom, the moon only when it is cloudless? To long for the moon while…

— Yoshida Kenko

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

— Anonymous

Break open the cherry tree: where are the blossoms? Just wait for spring time to see how they bloom.

— Ikkyu

Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.

— Walter Scott

“Should we only be interested to view the cherry blossoms at their peak, or the moon when it is full? To yearn for the…

— Anonymous

Only in dreams of spring Shall I ever see again The flowering of my cherry trees.

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

Look at the cherry blossoms! Their color and scent fall with them, Are gone forever, Yet mindless The spring comes again.

— Ikkyu

Catch a vista of maples in that long light and you see Autumn glowing through the leaves… The promise of gold and crimson is…

— Hal Borland

Across the land a faint blue veil of mist Seems hung; the woods wear yet arrayment sober Till frost shall make them flame; silent…

— Siegfried Sassoon

“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 so invariably…

— Yukio Mishima

“AUTUMNAL Pale amber sunlight falls across The reddening October trees, That hardly sway before a breeze As soft as summer: summer's loss Seems little,…

— Ernest Dowson