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Sadly, I part from you; Like a clam torn from its shell, I go, and autumn too.

Matsuo Basho

No matter where your interest lies, you will not be able to accomplish anything unless you bring your deepest devotion to it.
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Accomplishment Deep Devotion Interest Yourself
Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
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Deep Seek Teaching Wisdom
Don’t imitate me / we are not two halves / of a muskmelon.
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Fruit Imitation Myself
Calm and serene The sound of a cicada Penetrates the rock.
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Calm Rock Serene Sound
With every gust of wind, the butterfly changes its place on the willow.
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Butterfly Change Mindset Place
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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Beginning Lonely Master Myself Poem
The moon is brighter since the barn burned.
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Bright Burn Moon One Liner
An autumn night – don’t think your life didn’t matter.
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Autumn Life Night Thinking Yourself
Come out to view / the truth of flowers blooming / in poverty.
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Bloom Flower Poverty Truth
Clapping my hands with the echoes the summer moon begins to dawn.
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Beginning Dawn Hands Moon Summer
He who creates three to five haiku poems during a lifetime is a haiku poet. He who attains to completes ten is a master.
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Creation Life Master Poem Poet Time Writing
I hope to have gathered To repay your kindness The willow leaves Scattered in the garden.
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Garden Hope Kindness Pay
Farewell, my old fan. / Having scribbled on it, / What could I do but tear it / At the end of summer?
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End Fan Myself Old Summer
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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Breathe Compose Dangerous Enemy Fall Hairs Mindset Tree Writing
How I long to see among dawn flowers, the face of God.
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Face Flower God Myself See
Harvest moon: around the pond I wander and the night is gone.
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Moon Myself Night Water

Sadly, I part from you; Like a clam torn from its shell, I go, and autumn too.

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Sadly, I part from you; Like a clam torn from its shell, I go, and autumn too.

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