Quotes from Saigy?

Now seen...now gone, The butterfly flits in and out Through fence-hung flowers; But a life lived so close to them I envy...though it's here and gone.

The mind for truth Begins, like a stream, shallow At first, but then Adds more and more depth While gaining greater clarity.

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

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

How might I climb from the valley up over dripping boulders to tread the mountain clouds of that far peak?

Moved even as I turn in fresh despair from this suffering self I gaze at the moon as the year ends

It makes no sense to lack self-knowledge while understanding those around you.

Ratsuni jäljet on lumi peittänyt. Ne, joiden edelle ratsastin, kummeksivat: mitä tietä hän meni?

It was not for moon gazing I came into Mount Yoshino yet seeing it I grieve over the sad world

Tiedän varmasti todellisuuden epä- todelliseksi - Miten siis millään voisin myöntää unet uniksi?

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

Since nowhere can be home let me live nowhere in this scant hut in this brief world

I long now to be alone in some far-off cave and think without thought of others' eyes on me

Why does my heart still cling to the blossoms though I thought all attachments long gone?

This place of mine never is entered by humans come for conversation, only by the mute moon's light shafts that slip in between the trees.