Harvest moon: around the pond I wander and the night is gone.
MATSUO BASHOYear by year, the monkey’s mask reveals the monkey.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Between our two lives there is also the life of the cherry blossom.
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The desire to break the silence with constant human noise is, I believe, precisely an avoidance of the sacred terror of that divine encounter.
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Around existence twine, (Oh, bridge that hangs across the gorge!) ropes of twisted vine.
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First snow-falling-on the half-finished bridge.
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A flute with no holes is not a flute.
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Year by year, the monkey’s mask reveals the monkey.
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Clapping my hands with the echoes the summer moon begins to dawn.
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Felling a tree and gazing at the cut end – tonight’s moon.
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Traveler’s heart. Never settled long in one place. Like a portable fire.
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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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Sadly, I part from you; Like a clam torn from its shell, I go, and autumn too.
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The sea darkens And a wild duck s call Is faintly white.
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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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Breaking the silence Of an ancient pond, A frog jumped into water – A deep resonance.
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Without bitterest cold that penetrates to the very bone, how can plum blossoms send forth their fragrance all over the world?
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