Nothing in the cry of cicadas suggests they are about to die.
MATSUO BASHOBetween our two lives there is also the life of the cherry blossom.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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For this lovely bowl let us arrange these flowers since there is no rice.
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Friends part forever wild geese lost in cloud.
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Fresh spring! / The world is only Nine days old – / These fields and mountains!
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The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
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When composing a verse let there not be a hair’s breath separating your mind from what you write; composition of a poem must be done in an instant, like a woodcutter felling a huge tree or a swordsman leaping at a dangerous enemy.
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Summer grasses — all that remains of great soldiers’ imperial dreams.
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Come out to view / the truth of flowers blooming / in poverty.
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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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Old pond, frog jumps in – plop.
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Come, butterfly It’s late- We’ve miles to go together.
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Winter solitude- in a world of one colour the sound of the wind.
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Harvest moon: around the pond I wander and the night is gone.
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Spring rain conveyed under the trees in drops.
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Calm and serene The sound of a cicada Penetrates the rock.
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Old pond, leap-splash – a frog.
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Learn the rules, and then forget them.
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Between our two lives there is also the life of the cherry blossom.
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Without bitterest cold that penetrates to the very bone, how can plum blossoms send forth their fragrance all over the world?
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Every moment of life is the last, every poem is a death poem.
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On a bare branch a crow is perched – autumn evening.
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When I speak My lips feel cold – The autumn wind.
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The journey itself is my home.
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There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon.
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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
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From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree; And from the bamboo, of the bamboo.
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The moon is brighter since the barn burned.
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