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#1

“What a strange thing!
to be alive
beneath cherry blossoms.”
― Kobayashi Issa, Poems

tags: blossoms, cherry-blossoms, haiku, japan, life, poetry, spring

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#2

“Don't kill!...
The fly is asking you
To save his life
By rubbing his hands together”
― Issa Kobayashi

tags: fun, inspirational

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#3

“Giddy grasshopper
Take care...do not leap and crush
These pearls of dewdrop”
― Issa, Japanese Haiku

tags: haiku, nature-s-beauty

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#4

“Summer night--
even the stars
are whispering to each other.”
― Kobayashi Issa

tags: poetry

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#5

“Here
I'm here-
the snow falling.”
― Issa

tags: haiku, nature, poetry

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#6

“Never forget:
we walk on hell,
gazing at flowers.”
― Kobayashi Issa

tags: beauty, life, old-songs, sword-sentiments, transcendence, wind

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#7

“In this world
We walk on the roof of hell
Gazing at flowers”
― Kobayashi Issa

tags: poetry

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#8

“The world of dew
is the world of dew.
And yet, and yet--”
― Issa Kobayashi, The Dumpling Field: Haiku of Issa

tags: haiku

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#9

“Even in warmest
glow
how cold my shadow”
― Issa

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#10

“Books may well be the only true magic.”
― Alice Hoffman

tags: books

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#11

“Do your thing and don't care if they like it.”
― Tina Fey, Bossypants

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#12

“Books should go where they will be most appreciated, and not sit unread, gathering dust on a forgotten shelf, don't you agree?”
― Christopher Paolini

tags: books, reading

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