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  • It may just be because I get homesick, but I have concluded Washington's cherry blossoms are just plain overrated.

    Justice   May   Homesick  
  • Are we to look at cherry blossoms only in full bloom, the moon only when it is cloudless? To long for the moon while looking on the rain, to lower the blinds and be unaware of the passing of the spring - these are even more deeply moving. Branches about to blossom or gardens strewn with flowers are worthier of our admiration.

    Spring   Rain   Flower  
  • Ah, if in this world there were no such thing as cherry blossoms, perhaps then in springtime our hearts would be at peace.

    Heart   Would Be   World  
  • If I were asked to explain the Japanese spirit, I would say it is wild cherry blossoms glowing in the morning sun!

    Morning   Glowing   Sun  
  • I have a pretty good memory, but memories are time beings, too, like cherry blossoms or ginkgo leaves; for a while they are beautiful, and then they fade and die.

  • Look at the cherry blossoms! Their color and scent fall with them, Are gone forever, Yet mindless The spring comes again.

    Spring   Fall   Color  
  • Break open A cherry tree And there are no flowers; But the spring breeze Brings forth myriad blossoms.

    Nature   Spring   Flower  
    Ikkyū (2003). “Wild Ways: Zen Poems”, White Pine Press (NY)
  • I want to do with you what the spring does with the cherry trees.

    Spring   Tree   Doe  
  • We celebrate the cherry tree not for its efficiency but for its effectiveness - and for its beauty. Its materials are in constant flow, and all those thousands of useless cherry blossoms look gorgeous. Then they fall to the ground and become soil again, so there's no problem

  • It is spring time now! While the world looks for a new war to fight, you look for a cherry blossom to watch! Let the stupid seeks the violence; you seek the elegance!

    Spring   War   Stupid  
  • The ancients waited for cherry blossoms, grieved when they were gone, and lamented their passing in countless poems. How very ordinary the poems had seemed to Sachiko when she read them as a girl, but now she knew, as well as one could know, that grieving over fallen cherry blossoms was more than a fad or convention.

    Junichiro Tanizaki (1957). “The Makioka Sisters”
  • The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.

  • On a moonlit night, after a snowfall, or under cherry blossoms, it adds to our pleasure if, while chatting at our ease, we bring forth the wine cups.

    Wine   Night   Add  
  • The first time I saw a fingerbowl was at the home of my benefactress. [...] The water had a few cherry blossoms in it, and I thought it must be some clear sort of Japanese after-dinner soup and ate every bit of it, including the crisp little blossoms.

    Home   Water   Soup  
    Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.23, Hamilton Books
  • [W]hen the mind is really absent, in that silence, in that unlimited space, your potential starts glowing, radiating, flowering. Suddenly you are full of cherry blossoms, a new presence, a new fragrance.

    Glowing   Space   Silence  
  • The cherry blossom tree is truly a sight to behold, especially when it is in full riotous bloom. There are several varieties of the cherry blossom tree, and while most of them produce flowering branches full of small pinkish-hued flowers, some of them produce actual cherries.

    Flower   Sight   Tree  
    "The Significance of the Cherry Blossom: From Beloved Tree to Cultural Icon" by Homaro Cantu, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 30, 2013.
  • the Japanese school year begins in spring ... so mothers can send off their children as cherry blossoms fall from the branches.

    Cathy N. Davidson (2006). “36 Views of Mount Fuji: On Finding Myself in Japan”, p.21, Duke University Press
  • The work of preservation demands that the feelings playing about in one's guts not be turned into action. Just watch their passing like cherry blossoms.

    FaceBook post by Maxine Hong Kingston from Mar 06, 2013
  • The significance of the cherry blossom tree in Japanese culture goes back hundreds of years. In their country, the cherry blossom represents the fragility and the beauty of life. It's a reminder that life is almost overwhelmingly beautiful but that it is also tragically short.

  • I want to do to you what spring does with the cherry trees.

    Love   Romantic   Spring  
    Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair "Poem 14" l. 35 (1924) (translation byW. S. Merwin)
  • From all these trees, in the salads, the soup, everywhere, cherry blossoms fall.

    Spring   Fall   Tree  
  • For in spite of the snapdragons and the duty millers and the cherry blossoms, it was always winter.

    Spring   Winter   March  
  • Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough.

    A Shropshire Lad no. 2, l. 1 (1896)
  • Looking about I see no cherry blossoms And no crimson leaves A straw-thatched hut by a bay In the autumn dusk.

  • If there were no cherry blossoms in this world How much more tranquil our hearts would be in spring.

    Spring   Heart   Would Be  
  • I've seen spring come to the orchard every year as far back as I can remember and I've never grown tired of it. Oh, the wonder of it! The outrageous beauty! God didn't have to give us cherry blossoms you know. He didn't have to make apple trees and peach trees burst into flower and fragrance. But God just loves to splurge. He gives us all this magnificence and then, if that isn't enough, He provides fruit from such extravagance.

    Love   Spring   Flower  
    Lynn Austin (2001). “Hidden Places: A Novel”, p.210, Bethany House
  • However far I gaze Neither cherry blossoms nor Crimson leaves are in sight. Only a fisherman's hut on the shore In the autumnal evening.

  • Outside it's a perfect spring night. We stand on the sidewalk in front of our apartment building, and Henry takes my hand, and I look at him, and I raise our joined hands and Henry twirls me around and soon we're dancing down Belle Plaine Avenue, no music but the sound of cars whoosing by and our own laughter, and the smell of cherry blossoms that fall like snow on the sidewalk as we dance underneath the tress.

    Laughter   Spring   Fall  
    "The Time Traveler's Wife". Book by Audrey Niffenegger, 2003.
  • The oak tree: not interested in cherry blossoms.

    Matsuo Basho, “The Oak Tree”
  • The notion is called wabi-sabi life, like the cherry blossom, it is beautiful because of its impermanence, not in spite of it, more exquisite for the inevitability of loss.

    Peggy Orenstein (2008). “Waiting for Daisy: A Tale of Two Continents, Three Religions, Five Infertility Doctors, an Oscar, an Atomic Bomb, a Rom”, p.126, Bloomsbury Publishing USA
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