Don’t imitate me / we are not two halves / of a muskmelon.
MATSUO BASHOFresh spring! / The world is only Nine days old – / These fields and mountains!
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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A thicket of summer grass / Is all that remains / Of the dreams of ancient warriors.
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The sea darkens And a wild duck s call Is faintly white.
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Year by year, the monkey’s mask reveals the monkey.
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Do not resemble me-Never be like a musk melon Cut in two identical halves.
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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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This autumn- why am I growing old? bird disappearing among clouds.
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Felling a tree and gazing at the cut end – tonight’s moon.
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A flute with no holes is not a flute.
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Collecting all The rains of May The swift Mogami River.
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Breaking the silence Of an ancient pond, A frog jumped into water – A deep resonance.
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Spring rain leaking through the roof dripping from the wasps’ nest.
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Around existence twine, (Oh, bridge that hangs across the gorge!) ropes of twisted vine.
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The oak tree: not interested in cherry blossoms.
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Winter solitude- in a world of one colour the sound of the wind.
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Learn the rules, and then forget them.
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