Come, butterfly It’s late- We’ve miles to go together.
MATSUO BASHOHarvest moon: around the pond I wander and the night is gone.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Farewell, my old fan. / Having scribbled on it, / What could I do but tear it / At the end of summer?
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The fact that Saigyo composed a poem that begins, “I shall be unhappy without loneliness,” shows that he made loneliness his master.
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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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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself.
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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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The desire to break the silence with constant human noise is, I believe, precisely an avoidance of the sacred terror of that divine encounter.
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The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
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Don’t imitate me / we are not two halves / of a muskmelon.
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Winter garden, the moon thinned to a thread, insects singing.
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From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree; And from the bamboo, of the bamboo.
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First snow-falling-on the half-finished bridge.
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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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Breaking the silence Of an ancient pond, A frog jumped into water – A deep resonance.
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Every moment of life is the last, every poem is a death poem.
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Summer grasses — all that remains of great soldiers’ imperial dreams.
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