Quotes - Maria Alexandra (Guimarães, 04, Portugal) Showing 1-15 of 15

#1

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

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

2382 likes

#2

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

tags: poetry

1687 likes

#3

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

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

400 likes

#4

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

tags: haiku, nature, poetry

197 likes

#5

“O snail
Climb Mount Fuji
But slowly, slowly!”
― Kobayashi Issa

302 likes

#6

“In the cherry blossom's shade
there's no such thing
as a stranger.”
― Kobayashi Issa

tags: hospitality, old-songs, truth

160 likes

#7

“Where there are humans,
You'll find flies,
And Buddhas.”
― Kobayashi Issa

tags: buddhism, flies, zen

160 likes

#8

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

tags: haiku

130 likes

#9

“Don't weep, insects --
Lovers, stars themselves,
Must part.”
― Kobayashi Issa

tags: mayfly-and-pilgrim, ozymandias

79 likes

#10

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

70 likes

#11

“Arise from sleep, old cat,
And with great yawns and stretchings...
Amble out for love”
― Issa, Japanese Haiku

tags: cats, love, sleepiness

121 likes

#12

“In the city fields
Contemplating cherry-trees...
Strangers are like friends”
― Issa, Japanese Haiku

tags: contemplation, friends

70 likes

#13

“Reflected
in the dragonfly's eye --
mountains.”
― Kobayashi Issa

tags: geigenschein

54 likes

#14

“All the time I pray to Buddha
I keep on
killing mosquitoes.”
― Kobayashi Issa

55 likes

#15

“before the gate --
my walking stick's made a river
of melting snow”
― Kobayashi Issa

tags: haiku, poetry

39 likes

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