Clapping my hands with the echoes the summer moon begins to dawn.
MATSUO BASHOOld dark sleepy pool… Quick unexpected frog Goes plop! Watersplash!
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Old pond, leap-splash – a frog.
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All my friends / viewing the moon – / an ugly bunch.
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Felling a tree and gazing at the cut end – tonight’s moon.
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Fresh spring! / The world is only Nine days old – / These fields and mountains!
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When I speak My lips feel cold – The autumn wind.
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Harvest moon: around the pond I wander and the night is gone.
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Winter garden, the moon thinned to a thread, insects singing.
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Breaking the silence Of an ancient pond, A frog jumped into water – A deep resonance.
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The sea darkens And a wild duck s call Is faintly white.
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The basis of art is change in the universe.
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He who creates three to five haiku poems during a lifetime is a haiku poet. He who attains to completes ten is a master.
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Before enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water. After enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water.
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Old dark sleepy pool… Quick unexpected frog Goes plop! Watersplash!
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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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Awakened at midnight by the sound of the water jar cracking from the ice.
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