Gazing at the Moon Quotes

“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”
― Saigyō, Gazing at the Moon: Buddhist Poems of Solitude

“Since nowhere can be home let me live nowhere in this scant hut in this brief world”
― Saigyō, Gazing at the Moon: Buddhist Poems of Solitude

“Why does my heart still cling to the blossoms though I thought all attachments long gone?”
― Saigyō, Gazing at the Moon: Buddhist Poems of Solitude

“How might I climb from the valley up over dripping boulders to tread the mountain clouds of that far peak?”
― Saigyō, Gazing at the Moon: Buddhist Poems of Solitude

“Moved even as I turn in fresh despair from this suffering self I gaze at the moon as the year ends”
― Saigyō, Gazing at the Moon: Buddhist Poems of Solitude

“Now I would tell all those who wish to truly see the blossoms to cast off the world and live like me among the mountains”
― Saigyō, Gazing at the Moon: Buddhist Poems of Solitude

“How I delight in this well-timed snow that buries the mountain path behind me as I enter intent on long seclusion”
― Saigyō, Gazing at the Moon: Buddhist Poems of Solitude

“It was not for moon gazing I came into Mount Yoshino yet seeing it I grieve over the sad world”
― Saigyō, Gazing at the Moon: Buddhist Poems of Solitude

“I long now to be alone in some far-off cave and think without thought of others’ eyes on me”
― Saigyō, Gazing at the Moon: Buddhist Poems of Solitude