Do not resemble me-Never be like a musk melon Cut in two identical halves.
MATSUO BASHODo not resemble me-Never be like a musk melon Cut in two identical halves.
MATSUO BASHOWhy so scrawny, cat? Starving for fat fish or mice… Or backyard love?
MATSUO BASHOFelling a tree and gazing at the cut end – tonight’s moon.
MATSUO BASHONo matter where your interest lies, you will not be able to accomplish anything unless you bring your deepest devotion to it.
MATSUO BASHOThe basis of art is change in the universe.
MATSUO BASHOWinter garden, the moon thinned to a thread, insects singing.
MATSUO BASHOThere is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon.
MATSUO BASHOCome, butterfly It’s late- We’ve miles to go together.
MATSUO BASHOYear’s end, all corners of this floating world, swept.
MATSUO BASHOFarewell, my old fan. / Having scribbled on it, / What could I do but tear it / At the end of summer?
MATSUO BASHOCome, see the true flowers of this pained world.
MATSUO BASHOSitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself.
MATSUO BASHOSadly, I part from you; Like a clam torn from its shell, I go, and autumn too.
MATSUO BASHOWith every gust of wind, the butterfly changes its place on the willow.
MATSUO BASHOBefore enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water. After enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water.
MATSUO BASHONot to think of yourself / as someone who did not count — / Festival of the Souls.
MATSUO BASHO