Traveler’s heart. Never settled long in one place. Like a portable fire.
MATSUO BASHODo not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Spring rain conveyed under the trees in drops.
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I felt quite at home, / As if it were mine sleeping lazily / In this house of fresh air.
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With every gust of wind, the butterfly changes its place on the willow.
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Around existence twine, (Oh, bridge that hangs across the gorge!) ropes of twisted vine.
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For this lovely bowl let us arrange these flowers since there is no rice.
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The sea darkens And a wild duck s call Is faintly white.
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When I speak My lips feel cold – The autumn wind.
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From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree; And from the bamboo, of the bamboo.
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Breaking the silence Of an ancient pond, A frog jumped into water – A deep resonance.
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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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On a bare branch a crow is perched – autumn evening.
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The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
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Nothing in the cry of cicadas suggests they are about to die.
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Winter solitude- in a world of one colour the sound of the wind.
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Year by year, the monkey’s mask reveals the monkey.
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