I felt quite at home, / As if it were mine sleeping lazily / In this house of fresh air.
MATSUO BASHODo not resemble me-Never be like a musk melon Cut in two identical halves.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Between our two lives there is also the life of the cherry blossom.
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The haiku that reveals seventy to eighty percent of its subject is good. Those that reveal fifty to sixty percent, we never tire of.
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Year by year, the monkey’s mask reveals the monkey.
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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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Winter solitude- in a world of one colour the sound of the wind.
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Learn the rules, and then forget them.
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First snow-falling-on the half-finished bridge.
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The oak tree: not interested in cherry blossoms.
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When composing a verse let there not be a hair’s breath separating your mind from what you write; composition of a poem must be done in an instant, like a woodcutter felling a huge tree or a swordsman leaping at a dangerous enemy.
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Harvest moon: around the pond I wander and the night is gone.
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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself.
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Learn how to listen as things speak for themselves.
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Come, butterfly It’s late- We’ve miles to go together.
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Sadly, I part from you; Like a clam torn from its shell, I go, and autumn too.
MATSUO BASHO