Cherry Blossom Quotes - Page 2

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

  Ikkyu

  Nature, Spring, Flower

  Ikkyū (2003). “Wild Ways: Zen Poems”, White Pine Press (NY)

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• 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

  Beautiful, Loss, Cherries

  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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• 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.

  Yoshida Kenko

  Spring, Rain, Flower

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• The oak tree:
  not interested
  in cherry blossoms.

  Matsuo Basho

  Spring, Tree, Cherries

  Matsuo Basho, “The Oak Tree”

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• Looking about I see no cherry blossoms And no crimson leaves A straw-thatched hut by a bay In the autumn dusk.

  Fujiwara no Teika

  Autumn, Cherries, Dusk

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• Along the wide curving moat surrounding the palace, rows of cherry trees announced the end of their seasonal beauty. Some of the trees were weeping: blossoms in white and palest pink, ponderous with decreptitude, eddying on the brown water, stirred by the paddling of ducks.

  John Burnham Schwartz

  Ducks, White, Water

  John Burnham Schwartz (2009). “The Commoner”, p.148, Vintage

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• 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.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Laughter, Spring, Fall

  "The Time Traveler's Wife". Book by Audrey Niffenegger, 2003.

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• 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

  Girl, Grieving, Ordinary

  Junichiro Tanizaki (1957). “The Makioka Sisters”

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• 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.

  Sylvia Plath

  Home, Water, Soup

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.23, Hamilton Books

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