Learn the rules, and then forget them.
MATSUO BASHOWith every gust of wind, the butterfly changes its place on the willow.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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The oak tree: not interested in cherry blossoms.
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All my friends / viewing the moon – / an ugly bunch.
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Harvest moon: around the pond I wander and the night is gone.
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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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Traveler’s heart. Never settled long in one place. Like a portable fire.
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A weathered skeleton in windy fields of memory, piercing like a knife.
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Nothing in the cry of cicadas suggests they are about to die.
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Old dark sleepy pool… Quick unexpected frog Goes plop! Watersplash!
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At the ancient pond the frog plunges into the sound of water.
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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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Every moment of life is the last, every poem is a death poem.
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I am one who eats breakfast gazing at morning glories.
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An autumn night – don’t think your life didn’t matter.
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Awakened at midnight by the sound of the water jar cracking from the ice.
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Poverty’s child – he starts to grind the rice, and gazes at the moon.
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