Japanese haiku poets found something morose in the sound, an omen of the cicada's short adult life. In the cicada's cry, ... no sign can foretell how soon it must die.
More Quotes from Matsuö Basho:
Clapping my hands with the echoes the summer moon begins to dawn.Matsuö Basho
O cricket from your cherry cry No one would ever guess How quickly you must die.
Matsuö Basho
The oak tree not interested in cherry blossoms.
Matsuö Basho
When I speak My lips feel cold The autumn wind.
Matsuö Basho
Now the swinging bridge Is quieted with creepers Like our tendrilled life.
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