All my friends / viewing the moon – / an ugly bunch.
MATSUO BASHOYear’s end, all corners of this floating world, swept.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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The haiku that reveals seventy to eighty percent of its subject is good. Those that reveal fifty to sixty percent, we never tire of.
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Collecting all The rains of May The swift Mogami River.
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Poverty’s child – he starts to grind the rice, and gazes at the moon.
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How much I desire! Inside my little satchel, the moon, and flowers.
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For this lovely bowl let us arrange these flowers since there is no rice.
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A thicket of summer grass / Is all that remains / Of the dreams of ancient warriors.
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Nothing in the cry of cicadas suggests they are about to die.
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Old dark sleepy pool… Quick unexpected frog Goes plop! Watersplash!
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A flute with no holes is not a flute.
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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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Learn the rules, and then forget them.
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At the ancient pond the frog plunges into the sound of water.
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Old pond, frog jumps in – plop.
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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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Learn how to listen as things speak for themselves.
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