Kobayashi Issa quotes
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“In the cherry blossom's shade there's no such thing as a stranger.”
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“Don't worry, spiders, I keep house casually.”
-- Kobayashi IssaSource : Kobayashi Issa, “Don't Worry, Spiders”
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“What a strange thing! to be alive beneath cherry blossoms.”
-- Kobayashi IssaSource : Kobayashi Issa, “What A Strange Thing”
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“The world of dew is the world of dew. And yet, and yet--”
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“O snail Climb Mount Fuji But slowly, slowly!”
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“Take a nap Making the mountain water Pound the rice.”
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“Giddy grasshopper Take care...do not leap and crush These pearls of dewdrop”
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“In the city fields Contemplating cherry-trees... Strangers are like friends”
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“Summer night-- even the stars are whispering to each other.”
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“Even with insects - some can sing, some can't.”
-- Kobayashi IssaSource : Kobayashi Issa, “Even With Insects”
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“In this world we walk on the roof of hell gazing at flowers”
-- Kobayashi IssaSource : Kobayashi Issa, “In This World”
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“There is no stranger under the cherry tree.”
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“Listen, all creeping things, the bell of transience.”
-- Kobayashi IssaSource : Issa Kobayashi (1991). “The dumpling field: haiku of Issa”, Swallow Press
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“Arise from sleep, old cat, And with great yawns and stretchings... Amble out for love”
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“On the Death of his Child Dew Evaporates And all our world is dew...so dear, So fresh, so fleeting”
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“Not gifted with genius but honestly holding his experiences deep in his heart, he kept his simplicity and humanity.”
-- Kobayashi IssaSource : Issa Kobayashi, Nanao Sakaki, John Brandi, Jeff Bryan (1999). “Inch by inch: 45 haiku”, LA Alameda Pr
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“Where there are humans, You'll find flies, And Buddhas.”
-- Kobayashi IssaSource : Issa Kobayashi (1991). “The dumpling field: haiku of Issa”, Swallow Press
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“Don't kill!... The fly is asking you To save his life By rubbing his hands together”
-- Kobayashi IssaSource : Issa Kobayashi (1960). “The year of my life”
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“All the time I pray to Buddha I keep on killing mosquitoes.”
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“Don't weep, insects -- Lovers, stars themselves, Must part.”
-- Kobayashi IssaSource : Issa Kobayashi (1991). “The dumpling field: haiku of Issa”, Swallow Press
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“Reflected in the dragonfly's eye -- mountains.”
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“before the gate -- my walking stick's made a river of melting snow”
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“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 do they see the light of the world, stretching their longing heads out from the cracks in the snow, than they are instantly nipped off. For these plants isn't the sorrow as deep as that of the child's parents whose child had accidentally died? They say everything in the plant and tree kingdom attains Buddhahood. Then they, too, must have Buddha-nature.”
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“Face of the spring moon- about twelve years old, I'd say.”
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“Moon, plum blossoms, this, that, and the day goes”
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“Red morning sky - snail, are you glad of it?”
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