This autumn- why am I growing old? bird disappearing among clouds.
MATSUO BASHODo not resemble me-Never be like a musk melon Cut in two identical halves.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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When I speak My lips feel cold – The autumn wind.
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Harvest moon: around the pond I wander and the night is gone.
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Seek not the paths of the ancients; Seek that which the ancients sought.
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Year’s end, all corners of this floating world, swept.
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Sadly, I part from you; Like a clam torn from its shell, I go, and autumn too.
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The sea darkens And a wild duck s call Is faintly white.
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Poverty’s child – he starts to grind the rice, and gazes at the moon.
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Learn how to listen as things speak for themselves.
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Year by year, the monkey’s mask reveals the monkey.
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The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
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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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At the ancient pond the frog plunges into the sound of water.
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The universe and its beings are a complementarity of empty infinity, intimate interrelationships, and total uniqueness of each and every being.
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I hope to have gathered To repay your kindness The willow leaves Scattered in the garden.
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Spring rain conveyed under the trees in drops.
MATSUO BASHO