For this lovely bowl let us arrange these flowers since there is no rice.
MATSUO BASHOYear’s end, all corners of this floating world, swept.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
-
-
Come, butterfly It’s late- We’ve miles to go together.
MATSUO BASHO -
Don’t imitate me / we are not two halves / of a muskmelon.
MATSUO BASHO -
Sadly, I part from you; Like a clam torn from its shell, I go, and autumn too.
MATSUO BASHO -
Old dark sleepy pool… Quick unexpected frog Goes plop! Watersplash!
MATSUO BASHO -
The sea darkens And a wild duck s call Is faintly white.
MATSUO BASHO -
Come, see the true flowers of this pained world.
MATSUO BASHO -
Do not resemble me-Never be like a musk melon Cut in two identical halves.
MATSUO BASHO -
On a bare branch a crow is perched – autumn evening.
MATSUO BASHO -
All my friends / viewing the moon – / an ugly bunch.
MATSUO BASHO -
Without bitterest cold that penetrates to the very bone, how can plum blossoms send forth their fragrance all over the world?
MATSUO BASHO -
Summer grasses — all that remains of great soldiers’ imperial dreams.
MATSUO BASHO -
Why so scrawny, cat? Starving for fat fish or mice… Or backyard love?
MATSUO BASHO -
A weathered skeleton in windy fields of memory, piercing like a knife.
MATSUO BASHO -
Between our two lives there is also the life of the cherry blossom.
MATSUO BASHO -
Felling a tree and gazing at the cut end – tonight’s moon.
MATSUO BASHO