Summer grasses — all that remains of great soldiers’ imperial dreams.
MATSUO BASHO
The moon and sun are travelers through eternity. Even the years wander on. Whether drifting through life on a boat or climbing toward old age leading a horse, each day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Summer grasses — all that remains of great soldiers’ imperial dreams.
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Why so scrawny, cat? Starving for fat fish or mice… Or backyard love?
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Old pond, leap-splash – a frog.
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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
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Go to the pine if you want to learn about the pine, or to the bamboo if you want to learn about the bamboo. And in doing so, you must leave your subjective preoccupation with yourself. Otherwise you impose yourself on the object and you do not learn.
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A weathered skeleton in windy fields of memory, piercing like a knife.
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Traveler’s heart. Never settled long in one place. Like a portable fire.
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When composing a verse let there not be a hair’s breath separating your mind from what you write; composition of a poem must be done in an instant, like a woodcutter felling a huge tree or a swordsman leaping at a dangerous enemy.
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Sadly, I part from you; Like a clam torn from its shell, I go, and autumn too.
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Spring rain leaking through the roof dripping from the wasps’ nest.
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There came a day when the clouds drifting along with the wind aroused a wanderlust in me, and I set off on a journey to roam along the seashores
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I hope to have gathered To repay your kindness The willow leaves Scattered in the garden.
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Poverty’s child – he starts to grind the rice, and gazes at the moon.
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Nothing in the cry of cicadas suggests they are about to die.
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Old dark sleepy pool… Quick unexpected frog Goes plop! Watersplash!
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For this lovely bowl let us arrange these flowers since there is no rice.
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