Do not resemble me-Never be like a musk melon Cut in two identical halves.
MATSUO BASHOAll my friends / viewing the moon – / an ugly bunch.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Nothing in the cry of cicadas suggests they are about to die.
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Every moment of life is the last, every poem is a death poem.
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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
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Come, see the true flowers of this pained world.
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Felling a tree and gazing at the cut end – tonight’s moon.
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From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree; And from the bamboo, of the bamboo.
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For this lovely bowl let us arrange these flowers since there is no rice.
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Clapping my hands with the echoes the summer moon begins to dawn.
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All my friends / viewing the moon – / an ugly bunch.
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Winter solitude- in a world of one colour the sound of the wind.
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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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A weathered skeleton in windy fields of memory, piercing like a knife.
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With every gust of wind, the butterfly changes its place on the willow.
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The oak tree: not interested in cherry blossoms.
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Sadly, I part from you; Like a clam torn from its shell, I go, and autumn too.
MATSUO BASHO