Old dark sleepy pool… Quick unexpected frog Goes plop! Watersplash!
MATSUO BASHOThe moon is brighter since the barn burned.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Fresh spring! / The world is only Nine days old – / These fields and mountains!
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Year by year, the monkey’s mask reveals the monkey.
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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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From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree; And from the bamboo, of the bamboo.
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A flute with no holes is not a flute.
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Seek not the paths of the ancients; Seek that which the ancients sought.
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The oak tree: not interested in cherry blossoms.
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I am one who eats breakfast gazing at morning glories.
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Come out to view / the truth of flowers blooming / in poverty.
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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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Summer grasses — all that remains of great soldiers’ imperial dreams.
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How I long to see among dawn flowers, the face of God.
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An autumn night – don’t think your life didn’t matter.
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How much I desire! Inside my little satchel, the moon, and flowers.
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Collecting all The rains of May The swift Mogami River.
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