Poverty’s child – he starts to grind the rice, and gazes at the moon.
MATSUO BASHOWinter garden, the moon thinned to a thread, insects singing.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Awakened at midnight by the sound of the water jar cracking from the ice.
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All my friends / viewing the moon – / an ugly bunch.
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The basis of art is change in the universe.
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Do not resemble me-Never be like a musk melon Cut in two identical halves.
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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself.
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When I speak My lips feel cold – The autumn wind.
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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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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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From all these trees, in the salads, the soup, everywhere, cherry blossoms fall.
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April’s air stirs in Willow-leaves, a butterfly Floats and balances.
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Friends part forever wild geese lost in cloud.
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A weathered skeleton in windy fields of memory, piercing like a knife.
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Don’t imitate me / we are not two halves / of a muskmelon.
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Old pond, leap-splash – a frog.
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Winter garden, the moon thinned to a thread, insects singing.
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