This autumn- why am I growing old? bird disappearing among clouds.
MATSUO BASHODo not resemble me-Never be like a musk melon Cut in two identical halves.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Come, butterfly It’s late- We’ve miles to go together.
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Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
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Friends part forever wild geese lost in cloud.
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Seek not the paths of the ancients; Seek that which the ancients sought.
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No matter where your interest lies, you will not be able to accomplish anything unless you bring your deepest devotion to it.
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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
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The universe and its beings are a complementarity of empty infinity, intimate interrelationships, and total uniqueness of each and every being.
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Spring rain conveyed under the trees in drops.
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The moon and sun are travelers through eternity. Even the years wander on. Whether drifting through life on a boat or climbing toward old age leading a horse, each day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
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Every moment of life is the last, every poem is a death poem.
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Learn the rules, and then forget them.
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Old dark sleepy pool… Quick unexpected frog Goes plop! Watersplash!
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Old pond, leap-splash – a frog.
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Collecting all The rains of May The swift Mogami River.
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Nothing in the cry of cicadas suggests they are about to die.
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