Come, butterfly It’s late- We’ve miles to go together.
MATSUO BASHOSummer grasses — all that remains of great soldiers’ imperial dreams.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Poverty’s child – he starts to grind the rice, and gazes at the moon.
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Old pond, leap-splash – a frog.
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With every gust of wind, the butterfly changes its place on the willow.
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Learn the rules, and then forget them.
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The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
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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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First snow-falling-on the half-finished bridge.
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Come out to view / the truth of flowers blooming / in poverty.
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Winter garden, the moon thinned to a thread, insects singing.
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Go to the object. Leave your subjective preoccupation with yourself. Do not impose yourself on the object. Become one with the object. Plunge deep enough into the object to see something like a hidden glimmering there.
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Between our two lives there is also the life of the cherry blossom.
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A flute with no holes is not a flute.
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The fact that Saigyo composed a poem that begins, “I shall be unhappy without loneliness,” shows that he made loneliness his master.
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Calm and serene The sound of a cicada Penetrates the rock.
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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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