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Quotes from Gazing at the Moon: Buddhist Poems of Solitude — Saigyo

1118–1190 Japan

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3 quotes

Let me not spend my life
lamenting the world’s sorrows
for above
in the wide sky
the moon shines pure

Gazing at the Moon: Buddhist Poems of Solitude (2021)

How I delight
in this well-timed snow
that buries the mountain path
behind me as I enter
intent on long seclusion

Gazing at the Moon: Buddhist Poems of Solitude (2021)

What's to be done?
I thought I was past caring
for the spring
but my frozen water pipe
has made me long for it again

Gazing at the Moon: Buddhist Poems of Solitude (2021)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Saigyo (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.