Traveler’s heart. Never settled long in one place. Like a portable fire.
MATSUO BASHOOld dark sleepy pool… Quick unexpected frog Goes plop! Watersplash!
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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On a bare branch a crow is perched – autumn evening.
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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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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
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Old pond, leap-splash – a frog.
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Farewell, my old fan. / Having scribbled on it, / What could I do but tear it / At the end of summer?
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Winter solitude- in a world of one colour the sound of the wind.
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Harvest moon: around the pond I wander and the night is gone.
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Before enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water. After enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water.
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When I speak My lips feel cold – The autumn wind.
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A weathered skeleton in windy fields of memory, piercing like a knife.
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Sadly, I part from you; Like a clam torn from its shell, I go, and autumn too.
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Collecting all The rains of May The swift Mogami River.
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Breaking the silence Of an ancient pond, A frog jumped into water – A deep resonance.
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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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Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
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