Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself.
MATSUO BASHOAll my friends / viewing the moon – / an ugly bunch.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree; And from the bamboo, of the bamboo.
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Between our two lives there is also the life of the cherry blossom.
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Before enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water. After enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water.
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Farewell, my old fan. / Having scribbled on it, / What could I do but tear it / At the end of summer?
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Poverty’s child – he starts to grind the rice, and gazes at the moon.
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Every moment of life is the last, every poem is a death poem.
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Year by year, the monkey’s mask reveals the monkey.
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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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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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An autumn night – don’t think your life didn’t matter.
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I hope to have gathered To repay your kindness The willow leaves Scattered in the garden.
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On a bare branch a crow is perched – autumn evening.
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Don’t imitate me / we are not two halves / of a muskmelon.
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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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