22 quotes found
“The journey itself is my home.”
“ChrysanthemumSilence - monk Sips his morning tea.”
“Summer grasses,All that remainsOf soldiers' dreams”
“If I had the knackI'd sing likeCherry flakes falling”
“On this roadwhere nobody else travelsautumn nightfall.”
“Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.”
“Not knowing the name of the tree,I stood in the floodof its sweet scent.”
“It is only a barbarous mind that sees other than the flower, merely an animal mind that dreams of other than the moon.”
“This autumn-why am I growing old?bird disappearing among clouds.”
“Dead my old fine hopesAnd dry my dreaming but still...Iris, blue each spring”
“When a country is defeated, there remain only mountains and rivers, and on a ruined castle in spring only grasses thrive. I sat down on my hat and wept bitterly till I almost forgot time.A thicket ...”
“Winter solitude-in a world of one colourthe sound of the wind.”
“Real poetry, is to lead a beautiful life. To live poetry is better than to write it.”
“When composing a verse let there not be a hair's breath separating your mind from what you write; composition of a poem must be done in an instant, like a woodcutter felling a huge tree or a swords...”
“Describe plum-blossoms?Better than my verses...whiteWordless Butterflies”
“Had I crossed the passSupported by a stick,I would have spared myselfThe fall from the horse.”
“Twilight whippoorwill...Whistle on, sweet deepenerOf dark loneliness”
“Why so scrawny, cat?Starving for fat fish or mice...Or backyard love?”
“Awakened at midnightby the sound of the water jarcracking from the ice”
“Here is a greedy man who keeps to himselfThe beautiful pears ripe in his garden.”
“At one time I was weary of verse writing, and wanted to give it up. At another time I was determined to be a poet until I could establish a proud name over others. The alternatives battled in my mi...”
