An autumn night – don’t think your life didn’t matter.
MATSUO BASHOFirst snow-falling-on the half-finished bridge.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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This autumn- why am I growing old? bird disappearing among clouds.
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Felling a tree and gazing at the cut end – tonight’s moon.
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Not to think of yourself / as someone who did not count — / Festival of the Souls.
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Friends part forever wild geese lost in cloud.
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The basis of art is change in the universe.
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Around existence twine, (Oh, bridge that hangs across the gorge!) ropes of twisted vine.
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Plunge Deep enough in order to see something that is hidden and glimmering.
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Come out to view / the truth of flowers blooming / in poverty.
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Come, butterfly It’s late- We’ve miles to go together.
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First snow-falling-on the half-finished bridge.
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The haiku that reveals seventy to eighty percent of its subject is good. Those that reveal fifty to sixty percent, we never tire of.
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Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
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The moon is brighter since the barn burned.
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The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
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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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