Saigyō Quotes

• 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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  Change, Moon, Light

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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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  Moon, Light, Tree

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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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  Gratitude, Tears, Overcoming

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• The cherries' only fault: the crowds that gather when they bloom

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  Crowds, Faults, Cherries

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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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  Flower, Order, Tree

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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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  Winter, Rocks, Ice

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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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  Flower, Butterfly, Envy

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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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  Moon, Sight, Serenity

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