Spring rain leaking through the roof dripping from the wasps’ nest.
MATSUO BASHOThe oak tree: not interested in cherry blossoms.
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 temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
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Traveler’s heart. Never settled long in one place. Like a portable fire.
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Poverty’s child – he starts to grind the rice, and gazes at the moon.
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With every gust of wind, the butterfly changes its place on the willow.
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Breaking the silence Of an ancient pond, A frog jumped into water – A deep resonance.
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Go to the pine if you want to learn about the pine, or to the bamboo if you want to learn about the bamboo. And in doing so, you must leave your subjective preoccupation with yourself. Otherwise you impose yourself on the object and you do not learn.
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Learn the rules, and then forget them.
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Come, butterfly It’s late- We’ve miles to go together.
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Harvest moon: around the pond I wander and the night is gone.
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Calm and serene The sound of a cicada Penetrates the rock.
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Clapping my hands with the echoes the summer moon begins to dawn.
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Collecting all The rains of May The swift Mogami River.
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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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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself.
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