I am one who eats breakfast gazing at morning glories.
MATSUO BASHOThe journey itself is my home.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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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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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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April’s air stirs in Willow-leaves, a butterfly Floats and balances.
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With every gust of wind, the butterfly changes its place on the willow.
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Learn the rules, and then forget them.
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Don’t imitate me / we are not two halves / of a muskmelon.
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A flute with no holes is not a flute.
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Plunge Deep enough in order to see something that is hidden and glimmering.
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The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
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Not to think of yourself / as someone who did not count — / Festival of the Souls.
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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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How much I desire! Inside my little satchel, the moon, and flowers.
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Clapping my hands with the echoes the summer moon begins to dawn.
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