Friends part forever wild geese lost in cloud.
MATSUO BASHOWith every gust of wind, the butterfly changes its place on the willow.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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A thicket of summer grass / Is all that remains / Of the dreams of ancient warriors.
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Do not resemble me-Never be like a musk melon Cut in two identical halves.
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Seek not the paths of the ancients; Seek that which the ancients sought.
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Winter garden, the moon thinned to a thread, insects singing.
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Why so scrawny, cat? Starving for fat fish or mice… Or backyard love?
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Collecting all The rains of May The swift Mogami River.
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Summer grasses — all that remains of great soldiers’ imperial dreams.
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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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Winter solitude- in a world of one colour the sound of the wind.
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Real poetry, is to lead a beautiful life. To live poetry is better than to write it.
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An autumn night – don’t think your life didn’t matter.
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From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree; And from the bamboo, of the bamboo.
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How I long to see among dawn flowers, the face of God.
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A flute with no holes is not a flute.
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Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
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