A weathered skeleton in windy fields of memory, piercing like a knife.
MATSUO BASHOTraveler’s heart. Never settled long in one place. Like a portable fire.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Learn the rules, and then forget them.
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Go to the pine if you want to learn about the pine, or to the bamboo if you want to learn about the bamboo. And in doing so, you must leave your subjective preoccupation with yourself. Otherwise you impose yourself on the object and you do not learn.
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April’s air stirs in Willow-leaves, a butterfly Floats and balances.
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The basis of art is change in the universe.
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He who creates three to five haiku poems during a lifetime is a haiku poet. He who attains to completes ten is a master.
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Come, see the true flowers of this pained world.
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Winter solitude- in a world of one colour the sound of the wind.
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Fresh spring! / The world is only Nine days old – / These fields and mountains!
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Breaking the silence Of an ancient pond, A frog jumped into water – A deep resonance.
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Come out to view / the truth of flowers blooming / in poverty.
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The journey itself is my home.
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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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Poverty’s child – he starts to grind the rice, and gazes at the moon.
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Calm and serene The sound of a cicada Penetrates the rock.
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