Old pond, frog jumps in – plop.
MATSUO BASHOAwakened at midnight by the sound of the water jar cracking from the ice.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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All my friends / viewing the moon – / an ugly bunch.
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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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Friends part forever wild geese lost in cloud.
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Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself.
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Old dark sleepy pool… Quick unexpected frog Goes plop! Watersplash!
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Felling a tree and gazing at the cut end – tonight’s moon.
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Year by year, the monkey’s mask reveals the monkey.
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With every gust of wind, the butterfly changes its place on the willow.
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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 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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Poverty’s child – he starts to grind the rice, and gazes at the moon.
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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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At the ancient pond the frog plunges into the sound of water.
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