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The fact that Saigyo composed a poem that begins, “I shall be unhappy without loneliness,” shows that he made loneliness his master.

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Spring rain leaking through the roof dripping from the wasps’ nest.
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Home Insect Rain Spring
The fact that Saigyo composed a poem that begins, “I shall be unhappy without loneliness,” shows that he made loneliness his master.
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Beginning Lonely Master Myself Poem
Nothing in the cry of cicadas suggests they are about to die.
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Cry Death Flower
The oak tree: not interested in cherry blossoms.
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Flower Interest Tree
Go to the pine if you want to learn about the pine, or to the bamboo if you want to learn about the bamboo. And in doing so, you must leave your subjective preoccupation with yourself. Otherwise you impose yourself on the object and you do not learn.
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Knowledge Learning Leaving Nature Wisdom Yourself
Plunge Deep enough in order to see something that is hidden and glimmering.
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Enough Hide Order See
Winter solitude- in a world of one colour the sound of the wind.
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Oneself Solitude Sound Wind Winter
Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
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Day Destination Home Journey
There came a day when the clouds drifting along with the wind aroused a wanderlust in me, and I set off on a journey to roam along the seashores
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Day Journey Myself Sea Wind
Traveler’s heart. Never settled long in one place. Like a portable fire.
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Fire Heart Place Travel
I felt quite at home, / As if it were mine sleeping lazily / In this house of fresh air.
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Air Home Quite Sleep
The journey itself is my home.
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Home Journey Myself
Calm and serene The sound of a cicada Penetrates the rock.
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Calm Rock Serene Sound
How much I desire! Inside my little satchel, the moon, and flowers.
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Desire Flower Moon Myself
Why so scrawny, cat? Starving for fat fish or mice… Or backyard love?
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Cat Love Starve
From all these trees, in the salads, the soup, everywhere, cherry blossoms fall.
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Fall Food Tree

The fact that Saigyo composed a poem that begins, “I shall be unhappy without loneliness,” shows that he made loneliness his master.

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The fact that Saigyo composed a poem that begins, “I shall be unhappy without loneliness,” shows that he made loneliness his master.

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