On a bare branch a crow is perched – autumn evening.
MATSUO BASHOI am one who eats breakfast gazing at morning glories.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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The oak tree: not interested in cherry blossoms.
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Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
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From all these trees, in the salads, the soup, everywhere, cherry blossoms fall.
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A weathered skeleton in windy fields of memory, piercing like a knife.
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When I speak My lips feel cold – The autumn wind.
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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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Year by year, the monkey’s mask reveals the monkey.
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Spring rain leaking through the roof dripping from the wasps’ nest.
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I hope to have gathered To repay your kindness The willow leaves Scattered in the garden.
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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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A thicket of summer grass / Is all that remains / Of the dreams of ancient warriors.
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Come, butterfly It’s late- We’ve miles to go together.
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Old dark sleepy pool… Quick unexpected frog Goes plop! Watersplash!
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How I long to see among dawn flowers, the face of God.
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Learn the rules, and then forget them.
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