From all these trees, in the salads, the soup, everywhere, cherry blossoms fall.
MATSUO BASHOI am one who eats breakfast gazing at morning glories.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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April’s air stirs in Willow-leaves, a butterfly Floats and balances.
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Collecting all The rains of May The swift Mogami River.
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Go to the pine if you want to learn about the pine, or to the bamboo if you want to learn about the bamboo. And in doing so, you must leave your subjective preoccupation with yourself. Otherwise you impose yourself on the object and you do not learn.
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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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The moon is brighter since the barn burned.
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Felling a tree and gazing at the cut end – tonight’s moon.
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Awakened at midnight by the sound of the water jar cracking from the ice.
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At the ancient pond the frog plunges into the sound of water.
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Seek not the paths of the ancients; Seek that which the ancients sought.
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Year’s end, all corners of this floating world, swept.
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Spring rain conveyed under the trees in drops.
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The sea darkens And a wild duck s call Is faintly white.
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Don’t imitate me / we are not two halves / of a muskmelon.
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Old pond, frog jumps in – plop.
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Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
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