Come, see the true flowers of this pained world.
MATSUO BASHOEvery moment of life is the last, every poem is a death poem.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Poverty’s child – he starts to grind the rice, and gazes at the moon.
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Friends part forever wild geese lost in cloud.
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Calm and serene The sound of a cicada Penetrates the rock.
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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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Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
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From all these trees, in the salads, the soup, everywhere, cherry blossoms fall.
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Awakened at midnight by the sound of the water jar cracking from the ice.
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Do not resemble me-Never be like a musk melon Cut in two identical halves.
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Breaking the silence Of an ancient pond, A frog jumped into water – A deep resonance.
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Fresh spring! / The world is only Nine days old – / These fields and mountains!
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First snow-falling-on the half-finished bridge.
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Come, butterfly It’s late- We’ve miles to go together.
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When I speak My lips feel cold – The autumn wind.
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Year by year, the monkey’s mask reveals the monkey.
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Year’s end, all corners of this floating world, swept.
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