Famous Saigy Quotes

  • Last year, Yoshino,I walked away bending branchesTo point me to blossoms–Which now are everywhere and I canGo where I’ve never been before. – Saigy

    Last year, Yoshino,I walked away bending branchesTo point me to blossoms–Which now are everywhere and I canGo where I’ve never been before.– Saigy

  • Returning to whereIt used to see blossoms,My mind, changed,Will stay on at Yoshino…Home now, and see anew. – Saigy

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

  • Beyond this life andThis world I’ll have it tilMy heart’s content:The bright moon that passed overThe horizon before I had my fill. – Saigy

    Beyond this life andThis world I’ll have it tilMy heart’s content:The bright moon that passed overThe horizon before I had my fill.– Saigy

  • Today’s satori:Such a change of mind wouldNot exist withoutMy lifelong habit of havingMy mind immersed in blossoms. – Saigy

    Today’s satori:Such a change of mind wouldNot exist withoutMy lifelong habit of havingMy mind immersed in blossoms.– Saigy

  • Now seen…now gone,The ????erfly flits in and outThrough fence-hung flowers;But a life lived so close to themI envy…though it’s here and gone. – Saigy

    Now seen…now gone,The ????erfly flits in and outThrough fence-hung flowers;But a life lived so close to themI envy…though it’s here and gone.– Saigy

  • Tightly held by rocksThrough winter, the ice todayBegins to come undone:A way-seeker also is the water,Melting, murmuring from the moss. – Saigy

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

  • Limitations gone:Since my mind fixed on the moon,Clarity and serenityMake something for whichThere’s no end in sight. – Saigy

    Limitations gone:Since my mind fixed on the moon,Clarity and serenityMake something for whichThere’s no end in sight.– Saigy

  • I’d like to dividemyself in order to see,among these mountains,each and every flowerof every cherry tree. – Saigy

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