A weathered skeleton in windy fields of memory, piercing like a knife.
MATSUO BASHOHarvest moon: around the pond I wander and the night is gone.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
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There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon.
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The basis of art is change in the universe.
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Why so scrawny, cat? Starving for fat fish or mice… Or backyard love?
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Year by year, the monkey’s mask reveals the monkey.
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Harvest moon: around the pond I wander and the night is gone.
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Don’t imitate me / we are not two halves / of a muskmelon.
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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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For this lovely bowl let us arrange these flowers since there is no rice.
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Nothing in the cry of cicadas suggests they are about to die.
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First snow-falling-on the half-finished bridge.
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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 oak tree: not interested in cherry blossoms.
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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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With every gust of wind, the butterfly changes its place on the willow.
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