Learn how to listen as things speak for themselves.
MATSUO BASHOOld dark sleepy pool… Quick unexpected frog Goes plop! Watersplash!
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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When I speak My lips feel cold – The autumn wind.
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Fresh spring! / The world is only Nine days old – / These fields and mountains!
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Old pond, frog jumps in – plop.
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Winter garden, the moon thinned to a thread, insects singing.
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April’s air stirs in Willow-leaves, a butterfly Floats and balances.
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This autumn- why am I growing old? bird disappearing among clouds.
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The universe and its beings are a complementarity of empty infinity, intimate interrelationships, and total uniqueness of each and every being.
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Without bitterest cold that penetrates to the very bone, how can plum blossoms send forth their fragrance all over the world?
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For this lovely bowl let us arrange these flowers since there is no rice.
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All my friends / viewing the moon – / an ugly bunch.
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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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Nothing in the cry of cicadas suggests they are about to die.
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The moon is brighter since the barn burned.
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Collecting all The rains of May The swift Mogami River.
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The sea darkens And a wild duck s call Is faintly white.
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