“Describe plum-blossoms?
Better than my verses… white
Wordless Butterflies”
Bashō Matsuo (1644–1694) Japanese poet
Source: Japanese Haiku
“The blossom is out in full now, it’s plum tree, it looks like apple blossom but it’s white. It’s the whitest, frothiest blossomest blossom that ever could be, and I can see it. Things are both more trivial than they ever were and more important than they ever were, and the difference between the trivial and the important doesn’t seem to matter. But the now-ness of everything is absolutely wondrous.”
Final television interview with Melvyn Bragg (5 April 1994)
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She walks among the patterned pied brocade,
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Source: The Lamp and the Bell
“White as the blossoms which the almond tree,
Above its bald and leafless branches bears.”
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The Royal Preacher, Stanza 5, reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 19.
