Clapping my hands with the echoes the summer moon begins to dawn.
MATSUO BASHOOld pond, leap-splash – a frog.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Harvest moon: around the pond I wander and the night is gone.
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Do not resemble me-Never be like a musk melon Cut in two identical halves.
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Between our two lives there is also the life of the cherry blossom.
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With every gust of wind, the butterfly changes its place on the willow.
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The sea darkens And a wild duck s call Is faintly white.
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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself.
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Winter solitude- in a world of one colour the sound of the wind.
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The basis of art is change in the universe.
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No matter where your interest lies, you will not be able to accomplish anything unless you bring your deepest devotion to it.
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Awakened at midnight by the sound of the water jar cracking from the ice.
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Every moment of life is the last, every poem is a death poem.
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How much I desire! Inside my little satchel, the moon, and flowers.
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The moon is brighter since the barn burned.
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Come, see the true flowers of this pained world.
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The journey itself is my home.
MATSUO BASHO