Winter solitude- in a world of one colour the sound of the wind.
MATSUO BASHOWhen 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.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Real poetry, is to lead a beautiful life. To live poetry is better than to write it.
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Don’t imitate me / we are not two halves / of a muskmelon.
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The sea darkens And a wild duck s call Is faintly white.
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Around existence twine, (Oh, bridge that hangs across the gorge!) ropes of twisted vine.
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Come out to view / the truth of flowers blooming / in poverty.
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Without bitterest cold that penetrates to the very bone, how can plum blossoms send forth their fragrance all over the world?
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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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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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Friends part forever wild geese lost in cloud.
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When I speak My lips feel cold – The autumn wind.
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Old pond, leap-splash – a frog.
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Between our two lives there is also the life of the cherry blossom.
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On a bare branch a crow is perched – autumn evening.
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Awakened at midnight by the sound of the water jar cracking from the ice.
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Do not resemble me-Never be like a musk melon Cut in two identical halves.
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