Year by year, the monkey’s mask reveals the monkey.
MATSUO BASHOHarvest moon: around the pond I wander and the night is gone.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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I hope to have gathered To repay your kindness The willow leaves Scattered in the garden.
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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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Awakened at midnight by the sound of the water jar cracking from the ice.
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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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A flute with no holes is not a flute.
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Around existence twine, (Oh, bridge that hangs across the gorge!) ropes of twisted vine.
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Spring rain leaking through the roof dripping from the wasps’ nest.
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At the ancient pond the frog plunges into the sound of water.
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The sea darkens And a wild duck s call Is faintly white.
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Breaking the silence Of an ancient pond, A frog jumped into water – A deep resonance.
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Why so scrawny, cat? Starving for fat fish or mice… Or backyard love?
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When I speak My lips feel cold – The autumn wind.
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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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Winter garden, the moon thinned to a thread, insects singing.
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Between our two lives there is also the life of the cherry blossom.
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