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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The journey itself is my home.
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Learn the rules, and then forget them.
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Summer grasses — all that remains of great soldiers’ imperial dreams.
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Friends part forever wild geese lost in cloud.
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I hope to have gathered To repay your kindness The willow leaves Scattered in the garden.
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Every moment of life is the last, every poem is a death poem.
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Seek not the paths of the ancients; Seek that which the ancients sought.
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The desire to break the silence with constant human noise is, I believe, precisely an avoidance of the sacred terror of that divine encounter.
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Old pond, frog jumps in – plop.
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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
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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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April’s air stirs in Willow-leaves, a butterfly Floats and balances.
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On a bare branch a crow is perched – autumn evening.
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Poverty’s child – he starts to grind the rice, and gazes at the moon.
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From all these trees, in the salads, the soup, everywhere, cherry blossoms fall.
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