What did Matsuo Basho mean by: O cricket from your cherry cry No one would ever guess How quickly you must die. - Matsuo Basho Poet · Japan Copy
+ Now the swinging bridge Is quieted with creepers … Like our tendrilled life. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Matsuo Basho, Bridges, 0 - Matsuo Basho Poet · Japan
+ From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree; And from the bamboo, of the bamboo Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Matsuo Basho, Inspirational Life, 0 - Matsuo Basho Poet · Japan
+ April’s air stirs in Willow-leaves…a butterfly Floats and balances Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Matsuo Basho, Air, Butterfly, Spring, 0 - Matsuo Basho Poet · Japan
+ Not to think of yourself / as someone who did not count — / Festival of the Souls. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Matsuo Basho, Festivals, Soul, 0 - Matsuo Basho Poet · Japan
+ Even in Kyoto/Hearing the cuckoo’s cry/I long for Kyoto Feraz Zeid, October 2, 2023December 26, 2023, Matsuo Basho, 0 - Matsuo Basho Poet · Japan
+ Old dark sleepy pool… Quick unexpected frog Goes plop! Watersplash! Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Matsuo Basho, Dark, Frogs, Unexpected, 0 - Matsuo Basho Poet · Japan
+ A flute with no holes is not a flute. Feraz Zeid, October 1, 2023December 26, 2023, Matsuo Basho, Holes, 0 - Matsuo Basho Poet · Japan
+ Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home. Feraz Zeid, September 28, 2023December 26, 2023, Matsuo Basho, Heal, Nature, 0 - Matsuo Basho Poet · Japan
The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life. - Jean Giraudoux Playwright · France
When sparrows build and the leaves break forth My old sorrow wakes and cries. - Jean Ingelow Poet · England
Gardening is an art form, but it has lost its sense of history. - William Howard Adams Historian · USA
I often want to cry. That is the only advantage women have over men — at least they can cry. - Jean Rhys Writer · Dominica
I live alone, with cats, books, pictures, fresh vegetables to cook, the garden, the hens to feed. - Jeanette Winterson Author · England
Confronted with the vision of a beautiful garden, we see something beautiful about ourselves. - Jeff Cox
