Make the universe your companion, always bearing in mind the true nature of things-mountains and rivers, trees and grasses, and humanity-and enjoy the falling blossoms and the scattering leaves.
MATSUO BASHO
The journey itself is my home.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Make the universe your companion, always bearing in mind the true nature of things-mountains and rivers, trees and grasses, and humanity-and enjoy the falling blossoms and the scattering leaves.
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Come, butterfly It’s late- We’ve miles to go together.
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Old dark sleepy pool… Quick unexpected frog Goes plop! Watersplash!
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Nothing in the cry of cicadas suggests they are about to die.
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Harvest moon: around the pond I wander and the night is gone.
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At the ancient pond the frog plunges into the sound of water.
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Don’t imitate me / we are not two halves / of a muskmelon.
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From all these trees, in the salads, the soup, everywhere, cherry blossoms fall.
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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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Between our two lives there is also the life of the cherry blossom.
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Summer grasses — all that remains of great soldiers’ imperial dreams.
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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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An autumn night – don’t think your life didn’t matter.
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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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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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April’s air stirs in Willow-leaves, a butterfly Floats and balances.
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