For this lovely bowl let us arrange these flowers since there is no rice.
MATSUO BASHODon’t imitate me / we are not two halves / of a muskmelon.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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How much I desire! Inside my little satchel, the moon, and flowers.
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Summer grasses — all that remains of great soldiers’ imperial dreams.
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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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A weathered skeleton in windy fields of memory, piercing like a knife.
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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself.
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Traveler’s heart. Never settled long in one place. Like a portable fire.
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An autumn night – don’t think your life didn’t matter.
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Go to the pine if you want to learn about the pine, or to the bamboo if you want to learn about the bamboo. And in doing so, you must leave your subjective preoccupation with yourself. Otherwise you impose yourself on the object and you do not learn.
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Year’s end, all corners of this floating world, swept.
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I hope to have gathered To repay your kindness The willow leaves Scattered in the garden.
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Sadly, I part from you; Like a clam torn from its shell, I go, and autumn too.
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Old pond, frog jumps in – plop.
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With every gust of wind, the butterfly changes its place on the willow.
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Nothing in the cry of cicadas suggests they are about to die.
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Before enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water. After enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water.
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