Issa Kobayashi Quotes & Sayings
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Not gifted with genius but honestly holding his experiences deep in his heart, he kept his simplicity and humanity. — Kobayashi Issa
All the time I pray to Buddha I keep on killing mosquitoes. — Kobayashi Issa
Reflected
in the dragonfly's eye --
mountains. — Kobayashi Issa
Face of the spring moon- about twelve years old, I'd say. — Kobayashi Issa
Giddy grasshopper
Take care ... do not leap and crush
These pearls of dewdrop — Kobayashi Issa
Moon, plum blossoms, this, that, and the day goes — Kobayashi Issa
Summer night
even the stars
are whispering to each other. — Kobayashi Issa
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. — Kobayashi Issa
In the city fields
Contemplating cherry-trees ...
Strangers are like friends — Kobayashi Issa
Here
I'm here-
the snow falling. — Kobayashi Issa
Even in warmest
glow
how cold my shadow — Kobayashi Issa
Carrying a poppy he passes through the quarrel. — Kobayashi Issa
Before the gate
my walking stick's made a river of melting snow — Kobayashi Issa
Never forget:
we walk on hell,
gazing at flowers. — Kobayashi Issa
The world of dew
is the world of dew.
And yet, and yet
— Kobayashi Issa
Hi! My little hut
Is newly-thatched I see ...
Blue morning-glories — Kobayashi Issa
Hey sparrows
no pissing on my old
winter quilt! — Kobayashi Issa
On the Death of his Child Dew Evaporates And all our world is dew ... so dear, So fresh, so fleeting — Kobayashi Issa
Arise from sleep, old cat, And with great yawns and stretchings ... Amble out for love — Kobayashi Issa
Don't kill! ...
The fly is asking you
To save his life
By rubbing his hands together — Kobayashi Issa
There is no stranger under the cherry tree. — Kobayashi Issa
Red morning sky - snail, are you glad of it? — Kobayashi Issa
Even with insects - some can sing, some can't. — Kobayashi Issa
In the cherry blossom's shade there's no such thing as a stranger. — Kobayashi Issa
A world of grief and pain
Flowers bloom
Even then — Kobayashi Issa
Listen, all creeping things, the bell of transience. — Kobayashi Issa
Dry creek
glimpsed
by lightning — Kobayashi Issa
O snail
Climb Mount Fuji
But slowly, slowly! — Kobayashi Issa