Sadly, I part from you; Like a clam torn from its shell, I go, and autumn too.
MATSUO BASHOPoverty’s child – he starts to grind the rice, and gazes at the moon.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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The basis of art is change in the universe.
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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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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself.
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A weathered skeleton in windy fields of memory, piercing like a knife.
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Old pond, frog jumps in – plop.
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When I speak My lips feel cold – The autumn wind.
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Awakened at midnight by the sound of the water jar cracking from the ice.
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On a bare branch a crow is perched – autumn evening.
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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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Why so scrawny, cat? Starving for fat fish or mice… Or backyard love?
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Around existence twine, (Oh, bridge that hangs across the gorge!) ropes of twisted vine.
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The desire to break the silence with constant human noise is, I believe, precisely an avoidance of the sacred terror of that divine encounter.
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I hope to have gathered To repay your kindness The willow leaves Scattered in the garden.
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Felling a tree and gazing at the cut end – tonight’s moon.
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No matter where your interest lies, you will not be able to accomplish anything unless you bring your deepest devotion to it.
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