Between our two lives there is also the life of the cherry blossom.
MATSUO BASHOAn autumn night – don’t think your life didn’t matter.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Why so scrawny, cat? Starving for fat fish or mice… Or backyard love?
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Summer grasses — all that remains of great soldiers’ imperial dreams.
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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself.
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Spring rain conveyed under the trees in drops.
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Winter solitude- in a world of one colour the sound of the wind.
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First snow-falling-on the half-finished bridge.
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I am one who eats breakfast gazing at morning glories.
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Friends part forever wild geese lost in cloud.
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Traveler’s heart. Never settled long in one place. Like a portable fire.
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Before enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water. After enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water.
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Real poetry, is to lead a beautiful life. To live poetry is better than to write it.
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Come, butterfly It’s late- We’ve miles to go together.
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The moon is brighter since the barn burned.
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Old dark sleepy pool… Quick unexpected frog Goes plop! Watersplash!
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Breaking the silence Of an ancient pond, A frog jumped into water – A deep resonance.
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