Clapping my hands with the echoes the summer moon begins to dawn.
MATSUO BASHOWith every gust of wind, the butterfly changes its place on the willow.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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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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Awakened at midnight by the sound of the water jar cracking from the ice.
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Come, butterfly It’s late- We’ve miles to go together.
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Year by year, the monkey’s mask reveals the monkey.
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I am one who eats breakfast gazing at morning glories.
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Around existence twine, (Oh, bridge that hangs across the gorge!) ropes of twisted vine.
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When I speak My lips feel cold – The autumn wind.
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Fresh spring! / The world is only Nine days old – / These fields and mountains!
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Learn the rules, and then forget them.
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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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From all these trees, in the salads, the soup, everywhere, cherry blossoms fall.
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Old pond, leap-splash – a frog.
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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself.
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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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Breaking the silence Of an ancient pond, A frog jumped into water – A deep resonance.
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