Quotes by : Saigyō

Limitations gone:Since my mind fixed on the moon,Clarity and serenityMake something for whichThere's....

Returning to whereIt used to see blossoms,My mind, changed,Will stay on at Yoshino...Home now, and see....

Last year, Yoshino,I walked away bending branchesTo point me to blossoms--Which now are everywhere and....

Now seen...now gone,The butterfly flits in and outThrough fence-hung flowers;But a life lived so close....

Today's satori:Such a change of mind wouldNot exist withoutMy lifelong habit of havingMy mind immersed....

Beyond this life andThis world I'll have it tilMy heart's content:The bright moon that passed overThe....

Tightly held by rocksThrough winter, the ice todayBegins to come undone:A way-seeker also is the water,Melting,....

I'd like to dividemyself in order to see,among these mountains,each and every flowerof every cherry tree.....