Why so scrawny, cat? Starving for fat fish or mice… Or backyard love?
MATSUO BASHOThe oak tree: not interested in cherry blossoms.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Old dark sleepy pool… Quick unexpected frog Goes plop! Watersplash!
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Calm and serene The sound of a cicada Penetrates the rock.
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Year’s end, all corners of this floating world, swept.
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Around existence twine, (Oh, bridge that hangs across the gorge!) ropes of twisted vine.
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Felling a tree and gazing at the cut end – tonight’s moon.
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A thicket of summer grass / Is all that remains / Of the dreams of ancient warriors.
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Spring rain leaking through the roof dripping from the wasps’ nest.
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All my friends / viewing the moon – / an ugly bunch.
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First snow-falling-on the half-finished bridge.
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There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon.
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Winter solitude- in a world of one colour the sound of the wind.
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How I long to see among dawn flowers, the face of God.
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Summer grasses — all that remains of great soldiers’ imperial dreams.
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The fact that Saigyo composed a poem that begins, “I shall be unhappy without loneliness,” shows that he made loneliness his master.
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Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
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