Kishor N. > Kishor's Quotes

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

“Winter solitude-
in a world of one colour
the sound of the wind.”
― Basho Matsuo

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

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

“This autumn-
why am I growing old?
bird disappearing among clouds.”
― Basho Matsuo

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

“Calligraphy of geese
against the sky-
the moon seals it.”
― Buson Yosa