The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
MATSUO BASHOI am one who eats breakfast gazing at morning glories.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Learn the rules, and then forget them.
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Come, see the true flowers of this pained world.
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From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree; And from the bamboo, of the bamboo.
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Friends part forever wild geese lost in cloud.
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Clapping my hands with the echoes the summer moon begins to dawn.
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I hope to have gathered To repay your kindness The willow leaves Scattered in the garden.
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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself.
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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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I am one who eats breakfast gazing at morning glories.
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The oak tree: not interested in cherry blossoms.
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Winter garden, the moon thinned to a thread, insects singing.
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On a bare branch a crow is perched – autumn evening.
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Why so scrawny, cat? Starving for fat fish or mice… Or backyard love?
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This autumn- why am I growing old? bird disappearing among clouds.
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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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