Kobayashi Issa Quotes
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Even in warmest glow how cold my shadow
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O snail Climb Mount Fuji But slowly, slowly!
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Where there are humans, You'll find flies, And Buddhas.
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In the city fields Contemplating cherry-trees... Strangers are like friends
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Don't weep, insects -- Lovers, stars themselves, Must part.
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Dry creek glimpsed by lightning
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Arise from sleep, old cat, And with great yawns and stretchings... Amble out for love
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Listen, all creeping things, the bell of transience.
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Red morning sky - snail, are you glad of it?
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Don't kill!... The fly is asking you To save his life By rubbing his hands together
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Moon, plum blossoms, this, that, and the day goes
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Don't worry, spiders, I keep house casually.
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Take a nap Making the mountain water Pound the rice.
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Even with insects - some can sing, some can't.
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All the time I pray to Buddha I keep on killing mosquitoes.
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There is no stranger under the cherry tree.
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In this world we walk on the roof of hell gazing at flowers
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Carrying a poppy he passes through the quarrel.
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Not gifted with genius but honestly holding his experiences deep in his heart, he kept his simplicity and humanity.
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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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Summer night-- even the stars are whispering to each other.
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Reflected in the dragonfly's eye -- mountains.
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The world of dew is the world of dew. And yet, and yet--
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Here I'm here- the snow falling.
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What a strange thing! to be alive beneath cherry blossoms.
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before the gate -- my walking stick's made a river of melting snow
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Face of the spring moon- about twelve years old, I'd say.
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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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Giddy grasshopper Take care...do not leap and crush These pearls of dewdrop
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In spring rain a pretty girl yawning.
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