Real poetry, is to lead a beautiful life. To live poetry is better than to write it.
MATSUO BASHOWinter garden, the moon thinned to a thread, insects singing.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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The universe and its beings are a complementarity of empty infinity, intimate interrelationships, and total uniqueness of each and every being.
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Harvest moon: around the pond I wander and the night is gone.
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Between our two lives there is also the life of the cherry blossom.
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Learn the rules, and then forget them.
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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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How I long to see among dawn flowers, the face of God.
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With every gust of wind, the butterfly changes its place on the willow.
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I am one who eats breakfast gazing at morning glories.
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Summer grasses — all that remains of great soldiers’ imperial dreams.
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Collecting all The rains of May The swift Mogami River.
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Spring rain leaking through the roof dripping from the wasps’ nest.
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There came a day when the clouds drifting along with the wind aroused a wanderlust in me, and I set off on a journey to roam along the seashores
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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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Clapping my hands with the echoes the summer moon begins to dawn.
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How much I desire! Inside my little satchel, the moon, and flowers.
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