Kobayashi Issa Quotes

#1. Arise from sleep, old cat, And with great yawns and stretchings ... Amble out for love

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#2. Hi! My little hut
Is newly-thatched I see ...
Blue morning-glories

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#3. Even in warmest
glow
how cold my shadow

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#4. In the cherry blossom's shade there's no such thing as a stranger.

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#5. What a strange thing!
to be alive
beneath cherry blossoms.

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#6. Face of the spring moon- about twelve years old, I'd say.

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#7. Giddy grasshopper
Take care ... do not leap and crush
These pearls of dewdrop

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#8. Reflected
in the dragonfly's eye --
mountains.

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#9. Carrying a poppy he passes through the quarrel.

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#10. Red morning sky - snail, are you glad of it?

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#11. Dry creek
glimpsed
by lightning

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#12. Don't weep, insects
Lovers, stars themselves,
Must part.

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#13. Never forget:
we walk on hell,
gazing at flowers.

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#14. Before the gate
my walking stick's made a river of melting snow

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#15. In the city fields
Contemplating cherry-trees ...
Strangers are like friends

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#16. This dewdrop world
Is but a dewdrop world
And yet -

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#17. Summer night
even the stars
are whispering to each other.

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#18. O snail
Climb Mount Fuji
But slowly, slowly!

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#19. Where there are humans,
You'll find flies,
And Buddhas.

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#20. Listen, all creeping things, the bell of transience.

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#21. Moon, plum blossoms, this, that, and the day goes

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#22. Here
I'm here-
the snow falling.

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#23. Take a nap
Making the mountain water
Pound the rice.

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#24. Not gifted with genius but honestly holding his experiences deep in his heart, he kept his simplicity and humanity.

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#25. There is no stranger under the cherry tree.

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#26. Don't kill! ...
The fly is asking you
To save his life
By rubbing his hands together

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#27. Even with insects - some can sing, some can't.

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#28. Hey sparrows
no pissing on my old
winter quilt!

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#29. The world of dew
is the world of dew.
And yet, and yet

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#30. A world of grief and pain
Flowers bloom
Even then

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#31. All the time I pray to Buddha I keep on killing mosquitoes.

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#32. On the Death of his Child Dew Evaporates And all our world is dew ... so dear, So fresh, so fleeting

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