Fresh spring! / The world is only Nine days old – / These fields and mountains!
MATSUO BASHOWinter garden, the moon thinned to a thread, insects singing.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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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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Between our two lives there is also the life of the cherry blossom.
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April’s air stirs in Willow-leaves, a butterfly Floats and balances.
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Come out to view / the truth of flowers blooming / in poverty.
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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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The journey itself is my home.
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Felling a tree and gazing at the cut end – tonight’s moon.
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When I speak My lips feel cold – The autumn wind.
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Make the universe your companion, always bearing in mind the true nature of things-mountains and rivers, trees and grasses, and humanity-and enjoy the falling blossoms and the scattering leaves.
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Spring rain conveyed under the trees in drops.
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Spring rain leaking through the roof dripping from the wasps’ nest.
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Friends part forever wild geese lost in cloud.
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This autumn- why am I growing old? bird disappearing among clouds.
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Poverty’s child – he starts to grind the rice, and gazes at the moon.
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At the ancient pond the frog plunges into the sound of water.
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