I felt quite at home, / As if it were mine sleeping lazily / In this house of fresh air.
MATSUO BASHONo matter where your interest lies, you will not be able to accomplish anything unless you bring your deepest devotion to it.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Between our two lives there is also the life of the cherry blossom.
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The sea darkens And a wild duck s call Is faintly white.
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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
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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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Collecting all The rains of May The swift Mogami River.
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The moon is brighter since the barn burned.
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For this lovely bowl let us arrange these flowers since there is no rice.
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With every gust of wind, the butterfly changes its place on the willow.
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Old pond, leap-splash – a frog.
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Every moment of life is the last, every poem is a death poem.
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The universe and its beings are a complementarity of empty infinity, intimate interrelationships, and total uniqueness of each and every being.
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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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I hope to have gathered To repay your kindness The willow leaves Scattered in the garden.
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Not to think of yourself / as someone who did not count — / Festival of the Souls.
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April’s air stirs in Willow-leaves, a butterfly Floats and balances.
MATSUO BASHO