This autumn- why am I growing old? bird disappearing among clouds.
MATSUO BASHOWhy so scrawny, cat? Starving for fat fish or mice… Or backyard love?
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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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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A thicket of summer grass / Is all that remains / Of the dreams of ancient warriors.
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Don’t imitate me / we are not two halves / of a muskmelon.
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Old pond, frog jumps in – plop.
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Old dark sleepy pool… Quick unexpected frog Goes plop! Watersplash!
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April’s air stirs in Willow-leaves, a butterfly Floats and balances.
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The moon is brighter since the barn burned.
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I felt quite at home, / As if it were mine sleeping lazily / In this house of fresh air.
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Do not resemble me-Never be like a musk melon Cut in two identical halves.
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The journey itself is my home.
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Calm and serene The sound of a cicada Penetrates the rock.
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Learn the rules, and then forget them.
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The universe and its beings are a complementarity of empty infinity, intimate interrelationships, and total uniqueness of each and every being.
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Collecting all The rains of May The swift Mogami River.
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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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