Year’s end, all corners of this floating world, swept.
MATSUO BASHOI am one who eats breakfast gazing at morning glories.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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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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Harvest moon: around the pond I wander and the night is gone.
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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself.
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The desire to break the silence with constant human noise is, I believe, precisely an avoidance of the sacred terror of that divine encounter.
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The moon is brighter since the barn burned.
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The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
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Year by year, the monkey’s mask reveals the monkey.
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For this lovely bowl let us arrange these flowers since there is no rice.
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When I speak My lips feel cold – The autumn wind.
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Summer grasses — all that remains of great soldiers’ imperial dreams.
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From all these trees, in the salads, the soup, everywhere, cherry blossoms fall.
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All my friends / viewing the moon – / an ugly bunch.
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At the ancient pond the frog plunges into the sound of water.
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April’s air stirs in Willow-leaves, a butterfly Floats and balances.
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I felt quite at home, / As if it were mine sleeping lazily / In this house of fresh air.
MATSUO BASHO