The sea darkens And a wild duck s call Is faintly white.
MATSUO BASHOLearn the rules, and then forget them.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Old dark sleepy pool… Quick unexpected frog Goes plop! Watersplash!
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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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With every gust of wind, the butterfly changes its place on the willow.
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Year by year, the monkey’s mask reveals the monkey.
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Learn how to listen as things speak for themselves.
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Come out to view / the truth of flowers blooming / in poverty.
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This autumn- why am I growing old? bird disappearing among clouds.
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On a bare branch a crow is perched – autumn evening.
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Spring rain conveyed under the trees in drops.
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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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Real poetry, is to lead a beautiful life. To live poetry is better than to write it.
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From all these trees, in the salads, the soup, everywhere, cherry blossoms fall.
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Nothing in the cry of cicadas suggests they are about to die.
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Between our two lives there is also the life of the cherry blossom.
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For this lovely bowl let us arrange these flowers since there is no rice.
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