A thicket of summer grass / Is all that remains / Of the dreams of ancient warriors.
MATSUO BASHOWithout bitterest cold that penetrates to the very bone, how can plum blossoms send forth their fragrance all over the world?
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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Come, see the true flowers of this pained world.
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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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Year by year, the monkey’s mask reveals the monkey.
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This autumn- why am I growing old? bird disappearing among clouds.
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Before enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water. After enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water.
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An autumn night – don’t think your life didn’t matter.
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The basis of art is change in the universe.
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Winter solitude- in a world of one colour the sound of the wind.
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Clapping my hands with the echoes the summer moon begins to dawn.
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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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When composing a verse let there not be a hair’s breath separating your mind from what you write; composition of a poem must be done in an instant, like a woodcutter felling a huge tree or a swordsman leaping at a dangerous enemy.
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Old dark sleepy pool… Quick unexpected frog Goes plop! Watersplash!
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Learn the rules, and then forget them.
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