Old pond, frog jumps in – plop.
MATSUO BASHOThe universe and its beings are a complementarity of empty infinity, intimate interrelationships, and total uniqueness of each and every being.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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I hope to have gathered To repay your kindness The willow leaves Scattered in the garden.
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The basis of art is change in the universe.
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Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
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First snow-falling-on the half-finished bridge.
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Spring rain leaking through the roof dripping from the wasps’ nest.
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An autumn night – don’t think your life didn’t matter.
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Around existence twine, (Oh, bridge that hangs across the gorge!) ropes of twisted vine.
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Old dark sleepy pool… Quick unexpected frog Goes plop! Watersplash!
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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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Collecting all The rains of May The swift Mogami River.
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Poverty’s child – he starts to grind the rice, and gazes at the moon.
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This autumn- why am I growing old? bird disappearing among clouds.
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From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree; And from the bamboo, of the bamboo.
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Every moment of life is the last, every poem is a death poem.
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Come, butterfly It’s late- We’ve miles to go together.
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