Old pond, frog jumps in – plop.
MATSUO BASHOFirst snow-falling-on the half-finished bridge.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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An autumn night – don’t think your life didn’t matter.
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Calm and serene The sound of a cicada Penetrates the rock.
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Clapping my hands with the echoes the summer moon begins to dawn.
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Old dark sleepy pool… Quick unexpected frog Goes plop! Watersplash!
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The sea darkens And a wild duck s call Is faintly white.
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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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When I speak My lips feel cold – The autumn wind.
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Why so scrawny, cat? Starving for fat fish or mice… Or backyard love?
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He who creates three to five haiku poems during a lifetime is a haiku poet. He who attains to completes ten is a master.
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The basis of art is change in the universe.
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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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Between our two lives there is also the life of the cherry blossom.
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Collecting all The rains of May The swift Mogami River.
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With every gust of wind, the butterfly changes its place on the willow.
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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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