Fresh spring! / The world is only Nine days old – / These fields and mountains!
MATSUO BASHONot to think of yourself / as someone who did not count — / Festival of the Souls.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Harvest moon: around the pond I wander and the night is gone.
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How much I desire! Inside my little satchel, the moon, and flowers.
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Learn how to listen as things speak for themselves.
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Year by year, the monkey’s mask reveals the monkey.
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Poverty’s child – he starts to grind the rice, and gazes at the moon.
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There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon.
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On a bare branch a crow is perched – autumn evening.
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April’s air stirs in Willow-leaves, a butterfly Floats and balances.
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The fact that Saigyo composed a poem that begins, “I shall be unhappy without loneliness,” shows that he made loneliness his master.
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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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Do not resemble me-Never be like a musk melon Cut in two identical halves.
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Go to the object. Leave your subjective preoccupation with yourself. Do not impose yourself on the object. Become one with the object. Plunge deep enough into the object to see something like a hidden glimmering there.
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Old pond, frog jumps in – plop.
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Between our two lives there is also the life of the cherry blossom.
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The sea darkens And a wild duck s call Is faintly white.
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