April’s air stirs in Willow-leaves, a butterfly Floats and balances.
MATSUO BASHOThere 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
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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An autumn night – don’t think your life didn’t matter.
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How I long to see among dawn flowers, the face of God.
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Year by year, the monkey’s mask reveals the monkey.
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Summer grasses — all that remains of great soldiers’ imperial dreams.
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Before enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water. After enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water.
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Come, butterfly It’s late- We’ve miles to go together.
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For this lovely bowl let us arrange these flowers since there is no rice.
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Learn the rules, and then forget them.
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The basis of art is change in the universe.
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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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Traveler’s heart. Never settled long in one place. Like a portable fire.
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Spring rain leaking through the roof dripping from the wasps’ nest.
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Winter solitude- in a world of one colour the sound of the wind.
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When I speak My lips feel cold – The autumn wind.
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Every moment of life is the last, every poem is a death poem.
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