From all these trees, in the salads, the soup, everywhere, cherry blossoms fall.
MATSUO BASHOSummer grasses — all that remains of great soldiers’ imperial dreams.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Collecting all The rains of May The swift Mogami River.
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Don’t imitate me / we are not two halves / of a muskmelon.
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Come, see the true flowers of this pained world.
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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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When I speak My lips feel cold – The autumn wind.
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Year’s end, all corners of this floating world, swept.
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The moon is brighter since the barn burned.
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The sea darkens And a wild duck s call Is faintly white.
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Old pond, frog jumps in – plop.
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When composing a verse let there not be a hair’s breath separating your mind from what you write; composition of a poem must be done in an instant, like a woodcutter felling a huge tree or a swordsman leaping at a dangerous enemy.
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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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An autumn night – don’t think your life didn’t matter.
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Not to think of yourself / as someone who did not count — / Festival of the Souls.
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All my friends / viewing the moon – / an ugly bunch.
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Every moment of life is the last, every poem is a death poem.
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