Quotes about cicada

A collection of quotes on the topic of cicada, likeness, cry, pain.

Quotes about cicada

Yukio Mishima photo
Bashō Matsuo photo
Haruki Murakami photo
Karen Blixen photo
Park Chung-hee photo

“Like a Long Magnolia Blossom Bending to the Wind. Under heavy silence. Of a house in mourning. Only the cry of cicadas. Ma'am, ma'am, ma'am. Seem to long for you who is now gone. Under the August sun. The Indian Lilacs turn crimson. As if trying to heal the wounds of the mind. My wife has departed alone. Only I am left. Like a lone magnolia blossom bending to the wind. Where can I appeal. The sadness of a broken heart.”

Park Chung-hee (1917–1979) Korean Army general and the leader of South Korea from 1961 to 1979

Poem (August 1974), as quoted in Brothers at War: The Unending Conflict in Korea https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781846680670 (2013), by Sheila Miyoshi Jager, London: Profile Books, p. 414.
1970s

Xi Murong photo
Tim McGraw photo
Wang Wei photo
Evelyn Waugh photo
Gerald Durrell photo
Bashō Matsuo photo

“Soon to die
yet showing no sign
the cicada's voice”

Bashō Matsuo (1644–1694) Japanese poet

やがてしぬ
けしきはみえず
蝉の声
https://haikutopics.blogspot.ca/2006/07/voice-of-animal-xx-no-koe.html https://www.tofugu.com/japan/japanese-poetry-crash-course/
Individual poems

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