Around existence twine, (Oh, bridge that hangs across the gorge!) ropes of twisted vine.
MATSUO BASHOOld pond, frog jumps in – plop.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Friends part forever wild geese lost in cloud.
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Come out to view / the truth of flowers blooming / in poverty.
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The oak tree: not interested in cherry blossoms.
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How much I desire! Inside my little satchel, the moon, and flowers.
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Winter garden, the moon thinned to a thread, insects singing.
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This autumn- why am I growing old? bird disappearing among clouds.
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Do not resemble me-Never be like a musk melon Cut in two identical halves.
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The moon is brighter since the barn burned.
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The journey itself is my home.
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Fresh spring! / The world is only Nine days old – / These fields and mountains!
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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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Old pond, frog jumps in – plop.
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Felling a tree and gazing at the cut end – tonight’s moon.
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Collecting all The rains of May The swift Mogami River.
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For this lovely bowl let us arrange these flowers since there is no rice.
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