Friends part forever wild geese lost in cloud.
MATSUO BASHOYear by year, the monkey’s mask reveals the monkey.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Come, butterfly It’s late- We’ve miles to go together.
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Before enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water. After enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water.
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Make the universe your companion, always bearing in mind the true nature of things-mountains and rivers, trees and grasses, and humanity-and enjoy the falling blossoms and the scattering leaves.
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Do not resemble me-Never be like a musk melon Cut in two identical halves.
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How much I desire! Inside my little satchel, the moon, and flowers.
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This autumn- why am I growing old? bird disappearing among clouds.
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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself.
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Around existence twine, (Oh, bridge that hangs across the gorge!) ropes of twisted vine.
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Farewell, my old fan. / Having scribbled on it, / What could I do but tear it / At the end of summer?
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April’s air stirs in Willow-leaves, a butterfly Floats and balances.
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Learn the rules, and then forget them.
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On a bare branch a crow is perched – autumn evening.
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For this lovely bowl let us arrange these flowers since there is no rice.
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The basis of art is change in the universe.
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The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
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