First snow-falling-on the half-finished bridge.
MATSUO BASHOTraveler’s heart. Never settled long in one place. Like a portable fire.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Summer grasses — all that remains of great soldiers’ imperial dreams.
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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself.
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Do not resemble me-Never be like a musk melon Cut in two identical halves.
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Spring rain conveyed under the trees in drops.
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Around existence twine, (Oh, bridge that hangs across the gorge!) ropes of twisted vine.
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Clapping my hands with the echoes the summer moon begins to dawn.
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Year’s end, all corners of this floating world, swept.
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The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
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Before enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water. After enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water.
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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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Old pond, leap-splash – a frog.
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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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How much I desire! Inside my little satchel, the moon, and flowers.
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Come, butterfly It’s late- We’ve miles to go together.
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This autumn- why am I growing old? bird disappearing among clouds.
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