Do not resemble me-Never be like a musk melon Cut in two identical halves.
MATSUO BASHOCome, butterfly It’s late- We’ve miles to go together.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Winter garden, the moon thinned to a thread, insects singing.
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Traveler’s heart. Never settled long in one place. Like a portable fire.
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Without bitterest cold that penetrates to the very bone, how can plum blossoms send forth their fragrance all over the world?
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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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First snow-falling-on the half-finished bridge.
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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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Spring rain conveyed under the trees in drops.
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Don’t imitate me / we are not two halves / of a muskmelon.
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Before enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water. After enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water.
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Old pond, leap-splash – a frog.
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All my friends / viewing the moon – / an ugly bunch.
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Come, see the true flowers of this pained world.
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Year’s end, all corners of this floating world, swept.
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The desire to break the silence with constant human noise is, I believe, precisely an avoidance of the sacred terror of that divine encounter.
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The basis of art is change in the universe.
MATSUO BASHO






