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

“In the cherry blossom's shadethere's no such thingas a stranger.”

“Summer night--even the starsare whispering to each other.”

“HereI'm here-the snow falling.”

“before the gate --my walking stick's made a riverof melting snow”

“This dewdrop world Is but a dewdrop worldAnd yet ”

“What a strange thing!to be alivebeneath cherry blossoms.”

“A fallen blossomreturning to the bough, I thought --But no, a butterfly.”

“A poet is a verb that blossoms light in gardens of dawn, or sometimes midnight.”

“Come see the cherry trees of a water constellationand the round key of the rapid universe,come touch the fire of instantaneous blue,come before its petals are consumed.”

“I wouldn't mindif life left me...winglessburnt to cindersripped by stormsscattered...like weedscelestially woundedwithout cherry blossomsto perish withbut I would crywith head held in my handsif it...”

“Come see the cherry trees of a water constellationand the round key of the rapid universe,come touch the fire of instantaneous blue,come before its petals are consumed.”

“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.”

“stronger than mountains.a place where my heart feels the safest- underneath his shirt.”