Ryōkan Quote

In the scenery of spring,
nothing is better, nothing worse;
The flowering branches are
of themselves, some short, some long.

As translated in Haiku : Spring (1950) by Reginald Horace Blyth

In the scenery of spring, nothing is better, nothing worse; The flowering branches are of themselves, some short, some long.

In the scenery of spring, nothing is better, nothing worse; The flowering branches are of themselves, some short, some long.

In the scenery of spring, nothing is better, nothing worse; The flowering branches are of themselves, some short, some long.

In the scenery of spring, nothing is better, nothing worse; The flowering branches are of themselves, some short, some long.