Saigyō Quotes
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Limitations gone: Since my mind fixed on the moon, Clarity and serenity Make something for which There's no end in sight.
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Whatever it is, / I cannot understand it, / although gratitude / stubbornly overcomes me / until I'm reduced to tears.
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This place of mine never is entered by humans come for conversation, only by the mute moon's light shafts that slip in between the trees.
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Now seen...now gone, The butterfly flits in and out Through fence-hung flowers; But a life lived so close to them I envy...though it's here and gone.
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Tightly held by rocks Through winter, the ice today Begins to come undone: A way-seeker also is the water, Melting, murmuring from the moss.
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I'd like to divide myself in order to see, among these mountains, each and every flower of every cherry tree.
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Every single thing changes and is changing always in this world. Yet with the same light the moon goes on shining.
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The cherries' only fault: the crowds that gather when they bloom