Summer grasses — all that remains of great soldiers’ imperial dreams.
MATSUO BASHOHarvest moon: around the pond I wander and the night is gone.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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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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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
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Learn the rules, and then forget them.
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When I speak My lips feel cold – The autumn wind.
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There came a day when the clouds drifting along with the wind aroused a wanderlust in me, and I set off on a journey to roam along the seashores
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Nothing in the cry of cicadas suggests they are about to die.
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Year by year, the monkey’s mask reveals the monkey.
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The journey itself is my home.
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Don’t imitate me / we are not two halves / of a muskmelon.
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Between our two lives there is also the life of the cherry blossom.
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Old pond, frog jumps in – plop.
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Calm and serene The sound of a cicada Penetrates the rock.
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The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
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For this lovely bowl let us arrange these flowers since there is no rice.
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How much I desire! Inside my little satchel, the moon, and flowers.
MATSUO BASHO