This autumn- why am I growing old? bird disappearing among clouds.
MATSUO BASHOFirst snow-falling-on the half-finished bridge.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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April’s air stirs in Willow-leaves, a butterfly Floats and balances.
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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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The basis of art is change in the universe.
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Winter garden, the moon thinned to a thread, insects singing.
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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself.
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Why so scrawny, cat? Starving for fat fish or mice… Or backyard love?
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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
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There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon.
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Learn the rules, and then forget them.
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For this lovely bowl let us arrange these flowers since there is no rice.
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The journey itself is my home.
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On a bare branch a crow is perched – autumn evening.
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Do not resemble me-Never be like a musk melon Cut in two identical halves.
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I hope to have gathered To repay your kindness The willow leaves Scattered in the garden.
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Harvest moon: around the pond I wander and the night is gone.
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