Traveler’s heart. Never settled long in one place. Like a portable fire.
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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With every gust of wind, the butterfly changes its place on the willow.
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A flute with no holes is not a flute.
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Before enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water. After enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water.
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Make the universe your companion, always bearing in mind the true nature of things-mountains and rivers, trees and grasses, and humanity-and enjoy the falling blossoms and the scattering leaves.
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Come, butterfly It’s late- We’ve miles to go together.
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Sadly, I part from you; Like a clam torn from its shell, I go, and autumn too.
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Between our two lives there is also the life of the cherry blossom.
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Clapping my hands with the echoes the summer moon begins to dawn.
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How much I desire! Inside my little satchel, the moon, and flowers.
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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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At the ancient pond the frog plunges into the sound of water.
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First snow-falling-on the half-finished bridge.
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Not to think of yourself / as someone who did not count — / Festival of the Souls.
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Spring rain leaking through the roof dripping from the wasps’ nest.
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