Real poetry, is to lead a beautiful life. To live poetry is better than to write it.
MATSUO BASHOThe moon is brighter since the barn burned.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Spring rain leaking through the roof dripping from the wasps’ nest.
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Old dark sleepy pool… Quick unexpected frog Goes plop! Watersplash!
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The sea darkens And a wild duck s call Is faintly white.
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The moon is brighter since the barn burned.
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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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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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Breaking the silence Of an ancient pond, A frog jumped into water – A deep resonance.
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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
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Come, see the true flowers of this pained world.
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How much I desire! Inside my little satchel, the moon, and flowers.
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Come out to view / the truth of flowers blooming / in poverty.
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Don’t imitate me / we are not two halves / of a muskmelon.
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Winter solitude- in a world of one colour the sound of the wind.
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Calm and serene The sound of a cicada Penetrates the rock.
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A flute with no holes is not a flute.
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