From all these trees, in the salads, the soup, everywhere, cherry blossoms fall.
MATSUO BASHOI hope to have gathered To repay your kindness The willow leaves Scattered in the garden.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Every moment of life is the last, every poem is a death poem.
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A thicket of summer grass / Is all that remains / Of the dreams of ancient warriors.
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Plunge Deep enough in order to see something that is hidden and glimmering.
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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
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Year by year, the monkey’s mask reveals the monkey.
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Around existence twine, (Oh, bridge that hangs across the gorge!) ropes of twisted vine.
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Come, see the true flowers of this pained world.
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This autumn- why am I growing old? bird disappearing among clouds.
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The moon is brighter since the barn burned.
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Come out to view / the truth of flowers blooming / in poverty.
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Don’t imitate me / we are not two halves / of a muskmelon.
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The sea darkens And a wild duck s call Is faintly white.
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The haiku that reveals seventy to eighty percent of its subject is good. Those that reveal fifty to sixty percent, we never tire of.
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There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon.
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Between our two lives there is also the life of the cherry blossom.
MATSUO BASHO






